deficiency
Plural: deficiencies
Noun
- the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
- "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"
- lack of an adequate quantity or number
- Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
Origin / Etymology
From deficient + -cy. Compare Latin dēficientia.
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Scrabble Score: 21
deficiency: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddeficiency: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
deficiency: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 23
deficiency: valid Words With Friends Word