different between deficiency vs deficient
deficiency
English
Etymology
From deficit +? -ency. Compare Latin d?ficientia.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?f??sh?ns?, IPA(key): /d??f???nsi/
Noun
deficiency (countable and uncountable, plural deficiencies)
- (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
Antonyms
- sufficiency
- excess
Translations
Further reading
- deficiency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
deficiency From the web:
- what deficiency causes sugar cravings
- what deficiency causes cold hands and feet
- what deficiency causes hair loss
- what deficiency causes muscle cramps
- what deficiency causes dark circles
- what deficiency causes eye twitching
- what deficiency causes you to crave salt
- what deficiency causes slow wound healing
deficient
English
Etymology
From Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere (“to lack, fail, be wanting”); see defect.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??f???nt/
- Rhymes: -???nt
Adjective
deficient (comparative more deficient, superlative most deficient)
- Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
- Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
- (mathematics) Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors ?(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) s(n)<n.
Related terms
- defect
- defection
- defective
- defector
- deficiency
- deficit
Translations
Further reading
- deficient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- deficient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?fici?ns.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /d?.fi.si?ent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /d?.fi.si?en/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /de.fi.si?ent/
Adjective
deficient (masculine and feminine plural deficients)
- deficient
Related terms
- deficiència
Further reading
- “deficient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin
Verb
d?ficient
- third-person plural future active indicative of d?fici?
Romanian
Etymology
From French déficient
Adjective
deficient m or n (feminine singular deficient?, masculine plural deficien?i, feminine and neuter plural deficiente)
- deficient
Declension
deficient From the web:
- what deficient means
- what deficient fluid volume
- what deficient numbers
- what's deficient diversional activity
- what's deficient in farsi
- deficient what does it means
- what is deficient demand
- what does deficient mean in stocks
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