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deficiency

  • noun
  • de·fi·cien·cy
  • /dɪˈfɪʃənsi/

Inadequacy or incompleteness.

Other meanings

  1. An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.

  2. The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

Related words

  • bideficiency
  • haplodeficiency
  • hematodeficiency
  • hyperdeficiency
  • indeficiency
  • phosphodeficiency
  • pseudodeficiency
  • boron deficiency
  • deficiency letter
  • curve deficiency
  • deficiency disease
  • iron deficiency

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