Sentence examples for deficient meaning from inspiring English sources

Boron is also "electron deficient", meaning it would like to interact with more electrons to make it more stable.

Newly added are the Sichuan taimen in China, listed as critically endangered; the Hucho taimen or Mongolian (or Siberian) taimen, listed as vulnerable; and the Korean taimen, listed as "data deficient," meaning that far more information is needed on its status.

Bridges that receive a score of '4' or less on any of the three main components are deemed structurally deficient, meaning that a major defect has been found in the bridge's major support structure or deck.

The state of New Jersey, Christie's domain, has 6,554 bridges in all, and 651 of them are considered structurally deficient -- meaning they are either deteriorating or severely damaged.

The fuel performances varied with N-deficient culture time, meaning that better combustion performance, oxidation stability, and exhaust emissions level related to longer N-deficient stage, while the biodiesel produced form N-deficient would perform well under low temperature.

Almost half were found to be either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, meaning that critical structural elements were either in "poor condition" or inadequate for current traffic loads.

All the four differentially expressed proteins (L75, 91, 102 and 113) involved in amino acid metabolism were upregulated in Mg-deficient leaves (Table  1), meaning that the metabolism of amino acids might be upregulated in Mg-deficient leaves.

The loss of p53 reduces the efficacy of several conventional anticancer agents, meaning that p53-deficient tumours are intrinsically chemoresistant.

We found that miR472 was enhanced in B-deficient roots (Additional file 3), meaning that disease resistance protein gene might be down-regulated, thus decreasing the disease resistance of roots.

The majority acknowledges, however, that its reference to a 'two-pronged test' should not be understood as meaning that an affidavit deficient in these respects is necessarily inadequate to support a search warrant.

And according to the Federal Highway Administration's 2015 data, 8percentt of them are considered "structurally deficient" and seven percent "functionally obsolete," meaning those Illinois bridges either have major parts in poor condition or are out-of-date.