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deficiency
CEFRB2
/dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A lack of something needed or expected.
- 02
noun
Extra detailAn insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
Examples
Body temperature rising, pulse rising ... he's in a state of oxygen deficiency.
Vitamin deficiency in the diet can cause illness.
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 2
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsThe amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
Inadequacy or incompleteness.
The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
More examples
In contextAIDS means "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome".
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.
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Origin
noun
From deficient + -cy. Compare Latin dēficientia.