Found 3 items, similar to deficiency.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: deficiency
cacat, kekurangan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: deficiency
deficiency
n 1: the state of needing something that is absent or
unavailable;
“there is a serious lack of insight into
the problem”;
“water is the critical deficiency in
desert regions”;
“for want of a nail the shoe was lost”
[syn:
lack,
want]
2: lack of an adequate quantity or number;
“the inadequacy of
unemployment benefits” [syn:
insufficiency,
inadequacy]
[ant:
sufficiency,
sufficiency]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Deficiency
Deficiency
\De*fi"cien*cy\, n.; pl.
Deficiencies. [See
Deficient.]
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure;
imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
“A deficiency of blood.”
--Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his
deficiencies made him the ridicule of his
contemporaries. --Buckle.
[1913 Webster]
Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the
number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum
for curves of the same degree.
[1913 Webster]