English-Thai Dictionary

deficiency

N ความขาดแคลน  insufficiency scantness abundance surplus kwam-khad-klaen

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEFICIENCY

De *fi "cien *cy, n.; pl. Deficiencies. Etym: [See Deficient. ]

 

Defn: The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiencyof blood. " Arbuthnot. [Marlborough ] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

deficiency

de fi cien cy |diˈfiSHənsē dəˈfɪʃənsi | ▶noun ( pl. deficiencies ) a lack or shortage: vitamin A deficiency in children. • a failing or shortcoming: they did not like having the deficiencies of their city pointed out to them.

 

deficiency disease

de fi cien cy dis ease ▶noun a disease caused by the lack of some essential or important element in the diet, usually a particular vitamin or mineral. See also immunodeficiency.

 

deficiency payment

de fi cien cy pay ment ▶noun a payment made, typically by a government body, to cover a financial deficit incurred in the course of an activity such as farming or education.

 

Oxford Dictionary

deficiency

de |fi ¦ciency |dɪˈfɪʃ (ə )nsi | ▶noun ( pl. deficiencies ) a lack or shortage: deficiencies in material resources. • a failing or shortcoming: for all its deficiencies it remains his most powerful play. • the amount by which something, especially revenue, falls short; a deficit: a budget deficiency of $96 billion.

 

deficiency disease

de |fi ¦ciency dis |ease ▶noun a disease caused by the lack of an element in the diet, usually a particular vitamin or mineral.

 

deficiency payment

de |fi ¦ciency pay |ment ▶noun a payment made, typically by a government body, to cover a financial deficit incurred in the course of an activity such as farming.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

deficiency

deficiency noun 1 a vitamin deficiency: insufficiency, lack, shortage, want, dearth, inadequacy, deficit, shortfall; scarcity, paucity, absence, deprivation, shortness. ANTONYMS surplus. 2 the team's big deficiency: defect, fault, flaw, imperfection, weakness, weak point, inadequacy, shortcoming, limitation, failing. ANTONYMS strength.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

deficiency

deficiency noun 1 she has a vitamin deficiency in her diet: insufficiency, lack, shortage, want, dearth, inadequacy, deficit, shortfall; scarcity, scarceness, scantiness, paucity, absence, undersupply, sparseness, deprivation, meagreness, shortness; rare exiguity, exiguousness. ANTONYMS surplus. 2 the team's big deficiency was in the front five: defect, fault, flaw, imperfection, weakness, weak spot /point, inadequacy, shortcoming, limitation, failing. ANTONYMS strength.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

deficiency

de fi cien cy /dɪfɪ́ʃ (ə )nsi / (! 強勢は第2音節 ) 名詞 複 -cies /-z /U ｟かたく ｠〖具体例では 可算 〗1 «…の » 不足 , 欠乏 , 欠如 (shortage ); 不足分, 不足量 [額 ] «of , in » ▸ (a ) vitamin deficiency ビタミン不足 ▸ a deficiency of food 食糧不足 2 «…の » 欠点 ; 欠陥 , 不備 «in , of » ▸ a deficiency in the security system 警備システムの弱点 [欠陥 ]～́ dis è ase 〘医 〙欠乏症 〘ビタミン ミネラルなどの欠乏による脚気 （かつけ ）などの病気 〙.