defect

English

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Etymology

From Middle English defaicte, from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“priv.”) + facere (“to do”).

Pronunciation

• (noun) enPR: dē'fĕkt, IPA: /ˈdiːfɛkt/, X-SAMPA: /"di:fEkt/

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• (verb) enPR: dĭfĕkt', IPA: /dɪˈfɛkt/, X-SAMPA: /dI"fEkt/

Noun

defect (plural defects)

1. A fault or malfunction.

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

   • Macaulay

     Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.

2. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
   • Davies

     Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.

3. (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:defect

Related terms

• deficiency
• deficient
• deficit
• defective

Translations

fault or malfunction

• Armenian: արատ (hy) (arat)
• Bulgarian: недостатък (bg) (nedostatak) m, повреда (bg) (povreda)
• Catalan: defecte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 缺點 (cmn), 缺点 (cmn) (quēdiǎn), 問題 (cmn), 问题 (cmn) (wèntí), 缺陷 (cmn) (quēxiàn), 弱點 (cmn), 弱点 (cmn) (ruòdiǎn), 毛病 (cmn) (máobing, máobìng)

• Czech: závada (cs) f, porucha (cs) f
• Finnish: vika (fi)
• French: défaut (fr) m
• German: Fehler (de) m, Defekt (de) m
• Greek: ελάττωμα (el) (eláttoma) n
• Hebrew: פגם (he) (pgam) m
• Indonesian: cacat (id)

• Italian: difetto (it) m
• Japanese: 欠陥 (ja) (けっかん, kekkan), 欠点 (ja) (けってん, ketten)
• Polish: wada (pl) f
• Portuguese: defeito (pt) m
• Russian: недостаток (ru) (nedostátok) m, дефект (ru) (defékt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: cron (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: недостатак (sh) m

  Roman: nedostatak (sh) m

• Spanish: falla (es) f, tacha (es) f, defecto (es) m
• Telugu: లోపం (te) (lōpam)
• Thai: บกพร่อง (th) (bòk-prông)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

defect (third-person singular simple present defects, present participle defecting, simple past and past participle defected)

1. (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

     Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”

Derived terms

• defection
• defector

Translations

to abandon; to change one's loyalty

• Bulgarian: дезертирам (bg) (dezertiram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: overlopen (nl)
• Finnish: loikata (fi)
• French: déserter (fr), passer à (fr)
• German: überlaufen (de)
• Greek: αυτομολώ (el) (aftomoló), αποσκιρτώ (el) (aposkirtó)
• Hebrew: ערק (he) (`aráq)

• Indonesian: membelot (id)
• Italian: defezionare (it)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: dēscīscō (la)
• Russian: изменять (ru) (izmenját’), дезертировать (ru) (dezertírovat’)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пребјећи (sh)

  Roman: prebjeći (sh)

• Spanish: desertar (es), pasarse (es)

External links

• defect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• defect in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Adjective

defect (comparative defecter, superlative defectst)

1. broken, not working

Declension

Declension of defect

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		defect	defecter
neuter singular	indefinite	defect	defecter
	definite	defecte	defectere	defectste	defectst, defectste
common singular		defecte	defectere	defectste	defectste
plural		defecte	defectere	defectste	defectste
partitive		defects	defecters

Synonyms

• kapot