deficiency : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: deficiency	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for deficiency
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
deficiency n the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" Synonym(s): lack, deficiency, want lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" Synonym(s): insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency Antonym(s): adequacy, sufficiency
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deficiency \Defi"ciency\, n.; pl. {Deficiencies}. [See {Deficient}.] The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. [bd]A deficiency of blood.[b8] --Arbuthnot. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. --Buckle. {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.