deficient vs low-level

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). 

noun
  • A person who is deficient. 

low-level

adj
  • relatively unimportant 

  • of, or relating to a program, or to code in which each statement corresponds to a single machine instruction 

  • detailed 

  • Situated or occurring at a lower level. 

  • not intense 

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