Thesaurus: deficiency

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1. n. The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
2. n. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
3. n. lack of an adequate quantity or number
4. The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiencyof blood." Arbuthnot. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
5. The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure;imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiencyof blood." Arbuthnot.[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies madehim the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle.Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number ofdouble points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of thesame degree.
6. n:100 n the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable n lack of an adequate quantity or number