deficiency

Collocations

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1

(noun.)

ADJ

major, serious, severe | slight, small | dietary, nutritional | enzyme, hormone, mineral, nutrient, vitamin | calcium, iron, etc.

VERB + DEFICIENCY

have, suffer from

Many people have an iron deficiency without realizing it until they feel tired all the time.

correct, make good, make up, overcome, remedy

The government is working to overcome the deficiency in affordable housing across the country.

PREP

~ in

Many students struggle because of deficiencies in their basic math skills.

Definitions

noun

1

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.

2

An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.

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.

3

The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

4

The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — lack of an adequate quantity or number

insufficiency
inadequacy

noun — the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

Antonyms

sufficiency
adequacy

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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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 lon

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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.

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03

Body temperature rising, pulse rising ... he's in a state of oxygen deficiency.

Tatoeba · #327812

04

AIDS means "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome".

Tatoeba · #1498902

05

Scurvy, a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, long ago plagued sailors who ate no citrus fruits.

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The central nervous system, which includes the brain and the eyes, is particularly sensitive to oxygen deficiency.

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