Usually means: Lack of a necessary element.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word deficiency:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. deficiency: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  21. deficiency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. deficiency: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. deficiency: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deficiency: Encyclopedia

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