Deficiency
Deficiency , noun
[See Deficient.]
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
A deficiency of blood.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
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Deficiency of a curve (Geometry) , the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.