English Dictionary

deficiency

IPA（発音記号）

/dɪˈfɪʃənsi/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness. / (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.

日本語の意味

(不可算名詞) 不十分さ、不完全さ / (可算名詞) 不足、欠乏、特に健康に必要なものの不足

The audit revealed a deficiency in the maintenance of safety records.

監査は安全記録の管理に不備があることを明らかにした。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.

The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

意味（2）

(countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.

One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon specific to the sciences. … In fact, the disparity applies to the whole grove. Another report from 2006, by the American Association of University Professors, found the same ratio in the faculties of arts, humanities and social science, too.

意味（3）

(geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

意味（4）

(geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

deficiencies （ plural ）