deficient
adjEtymology
From Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere (“to lack, fail, be wanting”); see defect.
- derived from deficiens
Definitions
Lacking something essential
Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
- They were deficient in social skills.
Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
- Apothecia lecanoroid; multilocular; each cell containing a single theke; paraphyses deficient.
Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper…
Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) s(n)<n.
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A person who is deficient.
- This was justified by the rationale that mental deficients, by definition, are not able to succeed in society.
The neighborhood
Derived
bideficient, biodeficient, deficient-demand unemployment, deficiently, deficientness, deficient number, demand-deficient unemployment, haplodeficient, hyperdeficient, immunodeficient, indeficient, mental deficient, multideficient, nondeficient, phosphodeficient, pseudodeficient, rank-deficient, self-deficient, undeficient
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at deficient. 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 deficient. 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 deficient
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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