absence vs deficient

absence

noun
  • Lack; deficiency; nonexistence. 

  • A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship 

  • The period of someone being away. 

  • Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy. 

  • Lack of contact between blades. 

  • Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency. 

  • Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind). 

deficient

noun
  • A person who is deficient. 

adj
  • Insufficient or inadequate in amount. 

  • Lacking something essential; often construed with in. 

  • Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) s(n). 

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