Deficiency Definition

dĭ-fĭshən-sē
deficiencies
noun
deficiencies
The quality or state of being deficient; absence of something essential; incompleteness.
Webster's New World
A shortage.
Webster's New World
A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health.
A nutritional deficiency.
American Heritage
The amount of shortage; deficit.
Webster's New World

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

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Other Word Forms of Deficiency

Noun

Singular:
deficiency
Plural:
deficiencies

Origin of Deficiency

  • deficit +‎ -ency

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Deficiency Sentence Examples

  • As it is a staple food with the poorer classes, the deficiency is made up through importation.

  • This deficiency is made up by the addition of auxiliaries or suffixes.

  • There is, however, a yearly deficiency of more than £6000.

  • Beri-beri is a dietetic deficiency disease which manifests itself by cardiac weakness with shortness of breath, swelling of the legs and peripheral neuritis with numbness of the limbs and weakness.

  • Until recent years the forest birds did much to atone for this deficiency, for among them the tui and makomako rank high as songsters, while the apteryxes, kakapo, weka and stitch-bird are of peculiar interest to science.

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Words Starting With

DDEDEF

Words Ending With

YCYNCY

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Words Starting With D and Ending With Y

Starts With D & Ends With YStarts With DE & Ends With YStarts With D & Ends With CY

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10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With D10 Letter Words Ending With Y