Defect

Quick meaning: Defect is a noun meaning A fault or malfunction.

Meaning

A fault or malfunction.

More Meanings

1. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
2. (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
3. (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
4. (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
5. (military) To join the enemy army.
6. (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

Example Sentences

Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.

a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment

and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture.

Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing to defect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South.

Word Forms

• defects
• defecting
• defected

Synonyms for defect

Depending on context, synonyms include fault, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming, drawback, deficiency.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fault, shortcoming, desert, blemish, flaw, defective.

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