De*fi"cien*cy (?), n.;
pl. Deficiencies (#). [See
Deficient.] The state of
being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection;
shortcoming; defect. "A deficiency of blood." Arbuthnot.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), 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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