deficiency

English

/dɪˈfɪʃənsi/

noun
Definitions
  • (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
  • (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
  • (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
  • (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

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Affix from English deficit.

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deficit

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