Usually means: Lack of a necessary element.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word deficiency:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. deficiency: Merriam-Webster
  2. deficiency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deficiency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deficiency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deficiency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deficiency, deficiency: Wordnik
  7. deficiency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deficiency: Wiktionary
  9. deficiency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deficiency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deficiency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deficiency: Dictionary.com
  13. deficiency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Deficiency (medicine), Deficiency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Deficiency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. deficiency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. deficiency: Rhymezone
  18. deficiency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. deficiency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. deficiency: FreeDictionary.org
  21. deficiency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. deficiency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. deficiency: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. deficiency: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Deficiency: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. MSN Money (No longer online)
  8. deficiency: Legal dictionary
  9. deficiency: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deficiency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. deficiency: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. deficiency: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. deficiency: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Deficiency: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. deficiency: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deficiency: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
noun:  (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
noun:  (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
noun:  (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

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