deficiency
nounEtymology
From deficient + -cy. Compare Latin dēficientia.
- derived from dēficientia
Definitions
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.
An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
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.
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The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
The neighborhood
Derived
acquired immune deficiency syndrome, ARSA deficiency, arylsulfatase A deficiency, bideficiency, boron deficiency, curve deficiency, deficiency disease, deficiency letter, gay-related immune deficiency, haplodeficiency, hematodeficiency, hyperdeficiency, immune deficiency, immunodeficiency, indeficiency, iron deficiency, magnetic field deficiency syndrome, ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, phosphodeficiency, pseudodeficiency
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.
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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