'Deficiencies' definitions:
Definition of 'Deficiencies'
From: GCIDE
- Deficiency \De*fi"cien*cy\, n.; pl. Deficiencies. [See Deficient.] The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiency of blood." --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. --Buckle. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Deficiencies'
- Deficience,
- Deficiency,
- Deficient,
- Deficiency of a curve,
- Deficient number,
- deficiency disease,
- lactase deficiency,
- mass deficiency,
- mental deficiency,
- mineral deficiency,
- vitamin deficiency,
- zinc deficiency,
- Deficient-ly,
- color vision deficiency,
- colour vision deficiency,
- deficient inferior substandard,
- iron deficiency anaemia,
- iron deficiency anemia,
- acquired immune deficiency syndrome,
- vitamin-deficiency diet