Deficiency

Definitions

1. Inadequacy or incompleteness.
   uncountable
2. An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
   countable
3. The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
   countable, uncountable
4. The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture⟳ halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon specific to the sciences. … In fact, the disparity applies to the whole grove. Another report⟳ from 2006, by the American Association of University Professors, found the same ratio in the faculties of arts, humanities and social science, too.”

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