Defect(n.) Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
Defect(n.) Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
Defect(v. i.) To fail; to become deficient.
Defect(v. t.) To injure; to damage.
Defectibility(n.) Deficiency; imperfection.
Defectible(a.) Liable to defect; imperfect.
Defection(n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.
Defective(a.) Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.
Defective(a.) Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.
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