Definition of deficiency

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Deficiency (n.) The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

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Indicator :: Indicator (n.) That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis..
Ullage :: Ullage (n.) The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency..
Shortness :: Shortness (n.) The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath..
Defect :: Defect (n.) Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
Deficience :: Deficience (n.) Same as Deficiency.
Idiocy :: Idiocy (n.) The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence..
Talesman :: Talesman (n.) A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded.
Sphrigosis :: Sphrigosis (n.) A condition of vegetation in which there is too abundant growth of the stem and leaves, accompanied by deficiency of flowers and fruit..
Defectibility :: Defectibility (n.) Deficiency; imperfection.
Hypnocyst :: Hypnocyst (n.) A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts..
Wantage :: Wantage (n.) That which is wanting; deficiency.
Failing :: Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing..
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail..
Deficit :: Deficit (n.) Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc..
Supplement :: Supplement (v. t.) That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply..
Boot :: Boot (n.) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged..
Stimulism :: Stimulism (n.) The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation..
Monk :: Monk (n.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink..
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole..
Complete :: Complete (v. t.) To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education..
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