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deficiencies |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Deficiency \De*fi"cien*cy\, n.; pl {Deficiencies}. [See {Deficient}.] The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. ``A deficiency of 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.
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