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2 definitions 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: deficiency n 1: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn: {lack}, {want}] 2: lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" [syn: {insufficiency}, {inadequacy}] [ant: {sufficiency}, {sufficiency}]
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