deficiency

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Inadequacy or incompleteness. uncountable
    — 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. An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health. countable
    — 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. The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree. countable,uncountable
  4. The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system. countable,uncountable

词形变化

deficiencies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
acquired immune deficiency syndrome ARSA deficiency arylsulfatase A deficiency bideficiency boron deficiency curve deficiency deficiency disease deficiency letter gay-related immune deficiency haplodeficiency hematodeficiency hyperdeficiency immune deficiency immunodeficiency indeficiency iron deficiency magnetic field deficiency syndrome ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency phosphodeficiency pseudodeficiency

词源

From deficient + -cy. Compare Latin dēficientia.
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