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.
Etymology
Affix from English deficit.
Origin
English
deficit
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antideficit English
- bideficiency English
- deficit English
- gay English
- gay-related immune deficiency English
- gay-related immunodeficiency English
- haplodeficiency English
- hematodeficiency English
- hyperdeficiency English
- immune English
- immunodeficiency English
- indeficiency English
- neurodeficit English
- nondeficit English
- phosphodeficiency English
- pseudodeficiency English
- dēficientia Latin
- deficienza Italian
- déficience French
- deficiencia Spanish, Castilian
- *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- deficiência Portuguese
- deficiència Catalan, Valencian