Definitions for defects

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defects de·fect

Spelling: [noun dee-fekt, dih-fekt; verb dih- Defects is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in defects (cdeefst).

Definitions for defects

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 defects

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 defects

Of their defects from an artistic point of view it is not necessary to speak.

In the mean time the piece went on, and the shawl covered all its defects.

The genetic material can grow quickly, but are typically riddled with errors or defects.

An accurate knowledge of our defects will soonest lead to their cure.

No catalogue of American qualities and defects can exclude the trait of individualism.

Must he not, for this, and a hundred other defects, have special training?

He said he was drawn to Dexter because of his defects and contradictions.

Izetbegovic did not acknowledge the importance of the offer, but focused solely on its defects.

For all his defects, he had the qualities that are most needed to overcome the defects in our current political system.

These defects in his temper appeared more and more in him every year.