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deficiency
/dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
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What does deficiency mean?
noun
- Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
More meanings (1)
noun
- The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
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Another time when Winslow visited them, it being a season of plenty with them, there was no deficiency in this respect.
The blind man also played at bowls very successfully, receiving the odds of a bowl extra for the deficiency of each eye.
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I believe if in one district a species produced from any cause fewer young, the deficiency would be supplied from surrounding districts.
The same parasites tell us--and this is the chief object of my digression--that excess or deficiency of nutriment does not determine the sex.
In place of the parietal bone the head presented a marked deficiency as though a slice of the skull were cut out.