deficiency  

EN[dɪˈfɪʃənsi]

Definition of deficiency in English Dictionary

• NomPLdeficienciesPREdé-SUF-ency+-
  1. (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
     1. 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. (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
     1. 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. (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
  4. (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
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     • Inherited deficiency of urocanase leads to elevated levels of urocanic acid in the urine.
     • One article was excluded due to investigation on an association of presenile cataracts with heterozygosity for galactosaemic states and with riboflavin deficiency [ 27 ].
     • First, task performance of patients with known lesions (e.g. stroke) or neurophysiologic aberrations (e.g. dopamine deficiency in Parkinson’s disease) can be compared to healthy control subjects.

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1. en deficience
2. fr déficience
3. en efficiency
4. en deficient
5. fr déficient