defect
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
defect1
▶noun /ˈdiːfɛkt, dɪˈfɛkt/ a shortcoming, imperfection, or lack.
– origin ME: from L. defectus, past part. of deficere ‘desert or fail’, from de- (expressing reversal) + facere ‘do’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
defect2 /dɪˈfɛkt/
▶verb abandon one's country or cause in favour of an opposing one.
– derivatives
defection noun,
defector noun.
defection noun,
defector noun.
'defect' also found in these Oxford entries:
aberration
- amblyopia
- barrel distortion
- binding energy
- blemish
- blue baby
- cipher
- deficient
- deficit
- designer baby
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- fault
- fisheye
- hole in the heart
- Hurler's syndrome
- impediment
- limitation
- lisp
- mass defect
- shortcoming
- spina bifida
- Turner's syndrome
- word deafness
