deficiency
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- IPA /dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
Noun
deficiency noun
- 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.
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insufficiencyinadequacylackwantdeficientdeficitshortcominginsufficientinadequateshortagefailureinactionincompetenceunderemploymentfaultdefect
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