LekhoriLekhoriLacking something essential; often construed with in.
They were deficient in social skills.
Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
Apothecia lecanoroid; multilocular; each cell containing a single theke; paraphyses deficient.
Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) s(n)<n.
A person who is deficient.
This was justified by the rationale that mental deficients, by definition, are not able to succeed in society.
From Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere (“to lack, fail, be wanting”); see defect.
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