Usually means: Imperfection that may cause dysfunction.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. flaw: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flaw, flaw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flaw, flaw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flaw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flaw: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flaw, flaw: Wordnik
  7. flaw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flaw: Wiktionary
  9. flaw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flaw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flaw: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flaw, flaw: Dictionary.com
  13. flaw: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flaw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flaw (album), Flaw (band), Flaw, The Flaw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flaw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flaw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flaw: Rhymezone
  19. flaw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flaw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. flaw: Free Dictionary
  22. flaw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. flaw: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. flaw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flaw (disambiguation), flaw: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flaw (disambiguation), flaw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FLAW: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flaw: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Diamonds (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
noun:  (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
noun:  A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
noun:  A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
noun:  (in particular) An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
noun:  (law) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
verb:  (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
verb:  (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
noun:  A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
noun:  A storm of short duration.
noun:  A sudden burst of noise and disorder

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