different between shortfall vs deficiency
shortfall
English
Etymology
short +? fall, from the verb phrase fall short.
Noun
shortfall (plural shortfalls)
- An instance of not meeting a quota, debt, or monthly payment on a debt or other obligation, or of having an insufficient amount to cover such obligations.
- The amount by which a quota, debt, or monthly payment on a debt or other obligation is missed; the difference between the actual quota or debt and the lesser amount available to pay such obligations.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- fall short
shortfall From the web:
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deficiency
English
Etymology
From deficit +? -ency. Compare Latin d?ficientia.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?f??sh?ns?, IPA(key): /d??f???nsi/
Noun
deficiency (countable and uncountable, plural deficiencies)
- (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
Antonyms
- sufficiency
- excess
Translations
Further reading
- deficiency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
deficiency From the web:
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- what deficiency causes cold hands and feet
- what deficiency causes hair loss
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- what deficiency causes dark circles
- what deficiency causes eye twitching
- what deficiency causes you to crave salt
- what deficiency causes slow wound healing
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