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Webster 1913 Edition
Deficiency
De-fi′cien-cy
,Noun.
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.