'Deficiency of a curve' definitions:

Definition of 'Deficiency of a curve'

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  • 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]