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Moderatedeficiency
The correct spelling is deficiency.
How to pronounce deficiency
noun
IPA: /dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
Say it like: Def-isee-nsee
The correct spelling is deficiency. Inadequacy or incompleteness.
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Definition
noun
- 1.Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- 2.An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- 3.The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- 4.The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
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