Usually means: Imperfection or flaw in something.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. defect: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. defect, defect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Defect, defect: Wordnik
  7. defect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defect: Wiktionary
  9. defect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. defect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. defect: Dictionary.com
  13. defect (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. defect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Defect (disambiguation), Defect (geometry), Defect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Defect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. defect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. defect: Rhymezone
  19. Defect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. defect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. defect: Free Dictionary
  22. defect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. defect: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. defect: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. defect: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Error-Proofing Terms (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. defect: Legal dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. defect: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. defect: Netlingo
  3. defect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  4. defect: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defect: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defect: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defect: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Defect: Building pathology glossary
  3. Defect: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  4. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See defected as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A fault or malfunction.
noun:  The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
noun:  (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
verb:  (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
verb:  (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
verb:  (military) To join the enemy army.
verb:  (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

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