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deficient

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Adjective

  1. Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
  2. Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
  3. 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.

Noun

  1. A person who is deficient.

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