Defect definition
To abandon a position or association, often to join an opposing group.
Defected from the party over the issue of free trade.
verb
Lack of something necessary for completeness; deficiency; shortcoming.
noun
An imperfection or lack that causes inadequacy or failure; a shortcoming or deficiency.
noun
To forsake a party or cause, esp. so as to join the opposition.
verb
An error or flaw introduced, or not detected, during the design of the process or product.
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The definition of a defect is an imperfection or lacking that causes the person or thing with the defect to fall short of perfection.
An example of a defect is a genetic condition that causes weakness or death.
An example of a defect is faulty wiring that results in a product not working.
noun
To disown allegiance to one's country and take up residence in another.
A Soviet citizen who defected to Israel.
verb
To leave one's country because of disapproval of its political policies and settle in another that opposes such policies.
verb
An error or flaw in a process or product, affecting performance and potentially causing harm; a shortcoming in a legal document that may lead to its invalidity, or in a pleading that may lead to its dismissal.
noun
Pertaining to a contract or a pleading, an error or flaw of such gravity that it may invalidate the document in question.
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A flaw or error that should have been noticed by a reasonably observant individual. Also known as a patent defect.
An error or flaw in a product, introduced during the manufacturing rather than the design phase.
The failure either to inform users of the appropriate way to use a product so as to avoid harm, or to disclose an error or flaw in a product that may cause harm to a user.
A fault or malfunction.
A defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
noun
An imperfection or weakness; fault; flaw; blemish.
noun
Origin of defect
- Middle English from Latin dēfectus failure, want from past participle of dēficere to desert, be wanting dē- de- facere to do dhē- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle French defaicte, from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“priv.”) + facere (“to do”).
From Wiktionary