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de·fi·cien·cy
(dĭ-fĭsh′ən-sē)n. pl. de·fi·cien·cies
1. The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.
2. A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health: a nutritional deficiency.
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deficiency
(dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ)n, pl -cies
1. the state or quality of being deficient
2. a lack or insufficiency; shortage
3. (Accounting & Book-keeping) another word for deficit
4. (Genetics) biology the absence of a gene or a region of a chromosome normally present
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de•fi•cien•cy
(dɪˈfɪʃ ən si)n., pl. -cies.
1. the state of being deficient; lack; insufficiency.
2. the amount or quality lacked.
[1625–35; < Late Latin dēficientia]
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| Noun | 1. |  deficiency - 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"absence - the state of being absent; "he was surprised by the absence of any explanation" need, demand - a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" deficit - a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" mineral deficiency - lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism shortness - the condition of being short of something; "there was no shortness of money"; "can cause shortness of breath" stringency, tightness - a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit |
| 2. | deficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" amount - the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion; "an adequate amount of food for four people" exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, poorness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot deficit, shortage, shortfall - the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" scarceness, scarcity - a small and inadequate amount slenderness - the quality of being slight or inadequate; "he knew the slenderness of my wallet"; "the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done"; "the slenderness of the evidence" |
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deficiency
noun
1. lack, want, deficit, absence, shortage, deprivation, inadequacy, scarcity, dearth, privation, insufficiency, scantiness They did tests for signs of vitamin deficiency.
lack abundance, sufficiency, adequacy, surfeit, superfluity
lack abundance, sufficiency, adequacy, surfeit, superfluity
2. failing, fault, weakness, defect, flaw, drawback, shortcoming, imperfection, frailty, demerit the most serious deficiency in their air defence
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
deficiency
nounThe condition or fact of being deficient:
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Translations
نَقْص، نُقْصان
nedostatek
mangelfuldhedufuldkommenhedutilstrækkelighed
vajaus
skortur, vöntun
eksiklikyetersizlik
deficiency
[dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ]A. N
1. (gen) → deficiencia f; (= lack) → falta f (Med) (= weakness) → debilidad f
vitamin deficiency → avitaminosis f, déficit m vitamínico
vitamin deficiency → avitaminosis f, déficit m vitamínico
2. (in system, plan, character etc) → defecto m
3. (Fin) → déficit m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
deficiency
[dɪˈfɪʃənsi] n (= inadequacy) → insuffisance f, faiblesse f
[vitamin, mineral] → carence f
(in number) → insuffisance mdeficiency disease n → maladie f de carence
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
deficiency
n (= shortage) → Mangel m; (Fin) → Defizit nt, → Fehlbetrag m; (= defect: in character, system) → Schwäche f; vitamin/iron deficiency → Vitamin-/Eisenmangel m
deficiency
:deficiency disease
n (Med) → Mangelkrankheit f
deficiency guarantee
n (Fin) → Ausfallbürgschaft f
deficiency payment
n (Fin) → Ausgleichszahlung f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
deficiency
[dɪˈfɪʃ/ənsɪ] na. (of goods) → mancanza, insufficienza; (of vitamins, minerals, protein) → carenza
b. (in system, plan) → carenza
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
deficient
(diˈfiʃənt) adjective lacking in what is needed. Their food is deficient in vitamins.
deˈficiency – plural deˈficiencies – noun (a) shortage or absence of what is needed.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
de·fi·cien·cy
n. deficiencia, falta de algún elemento esencial al organismo;
___ disease → enfermedad por deficiencia;
galactokinasa ___ → ___ de galactocinasa;
lactase ___ → ___ de lactasa;
mineral ___ → ___ mineral;
mental ___ → ___ mental;
oxygen ___ → falta de oxígeno.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
deficiency
n (pl -cies) deficiencia, carencia, faltaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.