deficiency

noun
/dɪˈfɪʃənsi/

Etymology

From deficient + -cy. Compare Latin dēficientia.

  1. derived from dēficientia

Definitions

  1. Inadequacy or incompleteness.

    • The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
  2. An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.

  3. The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for…

    The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at deficiency. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at deficiency. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at deficiency

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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