deficiency
About 16.07 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- noun An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- noun The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- noun The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
Similar words
insufficiency inadequacy lack want deficient deficit shortcoming insufficient inadequate shortage
Often followed by
of in is and syndrome anemia or may was
Word family
deficiencies
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