Definitions for defect

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defect de·fect

Spelling: [noun dee-fekt, dih-fekt; verb dih- Defect is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in defect (cdeeft).

Definitions for defect

noun

1. a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection:
2. lack or want, especially of something essential to perfection or completeness; deficiency:
3. Also called crystal defect, lattice defect. Crystallography. a discontinuity in the lattice of a crystal caused by missing or extra atoms or ions, or by dislocations.

verb (used without object)

1. to desert a cause, country, etc., especially in order to adopt another (often followed by from or to):

Origin of defect

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin dēfectus failure, weakness, equivalent to dēfec- variant stem of dēficere to run short, fail, weaken (see deficient) + -tus

Examples for defect

Some defect in the latter may be excused, but not in the former.

After clashing with coach Victor Tikhonov, a KGB-installed tyrant, he chose to challenge the government and defect to the NHL.

Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect—he read it to his friends.

He also may have tried to defect from the Taliban after they lost the war and join up with the Afghan government.

I think we are empowering refugees and there will be many more people like me who defect.

These big paydays have incentivized a record number of Cuban players to defect.

Most often a virtue presents itself side by side with a defect.

What we imagine to be a superior perfection, may really be a defect.

Yet the manner, and the air, made up (as I intended they should) for that defect.

When Michele Bachmann claimed in 2011 that a supporter had been bribed to defect to Ron Paul, observers rolled their eyes.