DEFICIENCIES

Noun

deficiencies

plural of deficiency

Source: Wiktionary


DEFICIENCY

De*fi"cien*cy, n.; pl. Deficiencies. Etym: [See Deficient.]

Definition: The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiencyof 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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