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US
/səˈfɪʃənsi/
]
[ UK /səfˈɪʃənsi/ ]
[ UK /səfˈɪʃənsi/ ]
NOUN
-
an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country
enough is as good as a feast -
the quality of being sufficient for the end in view
he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence -
sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations
her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency
How To Use sufficiency In A Sentence
- We can use these faculties to tend the planet and all its inhabitants, by means of inclusive social practices and arrangements that ensure a loving sufficiency for all.
- Hormonal factors appear to play a conflicting role in the regulation of salt and water balance under conditions of pulmonary insufficiency.
- Current areas of investigation include neurohumoral, cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating airway contractility, airway smooth muscle growth and cell surface receptor expression; regulation of postnatal development and growth of the lung; developmental effects of pulmonary inflammation and oxidative lung injury on airway and pulmonary vascular reactivity; biochemical and molecular regulation of membrane ion channels in cystic fibrosis; maturational changes in chest wall and airway function; pulmonary manifestations of sickle cell disease; the physiological basis of ventilator dependence in children with chronic respiratory insufficiency; and developmental aspects of respiratory mechanics and ventilatory control. Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Medicine
- The whole idea of "self sufficiency" is fraught with peril. Redefining Self-Sufficiency « PubliCola
- Her motherlessness plays no small role in this; her obstinate self-sufficiency evidently compensates for her father's meekness and her mother's absence.
- Defensive security is defined as a sufficiency of military and economic potentials of the state to repulse possible threats to its independence and territorial integrity.
- Edit: I asked Dr. Ukrainsky in an email what he meant by "Nedo" and this was his response: "Russian prefix "nedo" insufficiency sensu lato means, that this ceratopsian has lack: nasal horn absent. Insufficiency!?!
- But the Yates case revealed a deep gender divide about the isolation and stress of family and motherhood in a society that extols self-sufficiency as its premiere human value.
- The aldactone and male pattern balding may actually see as unused unless you frequency the initial similarity and feeling your insufficiency has prescribed. Wii-volution
- In most cases the most prominent programmes have been to support agricultural production in the interests of national self-sufficiency or of export requirements. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations