- 1. n. The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. Source: opted
- 2. n. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable Source: wordnet
- 3. n. lack of an adequate quantity or number Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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. Source: adambom
- 6. n:100 n the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable n lack of an adequate quantity or number Source: ecdict
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