malfunction

The term defect (from Latin defectus "weakened") denotes:

• generally a damage or error , in technology also malfunction or technical defect , see also defect (semiconductor technology) .
• as an adjective a synonym for broken .
• in nuclear physics the difference in mass between the actual mass of an atomic nucleus and the ever larger sum of the masses of the individual nucleons (protons and neutrons) contained in it, see mass defect .
• in medicine the lack of an organ or part of an organ, see organ defect .
• the lack of a sensory function, see sensory defect .
• the lack of a mental function, see mental defect .
• the lack of a physical function, see physical defect .
• the defect of a linear mapping in algebra (mathematics), see defect (mathematics) .
• a lattice defect in crystallography .
• a music album by the German New German Hardship group Oomph!
• a novel by Patricia Cornwell
• a drug delivery bottleneck

See also:

• Wiktionary: Defect  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
• Defect

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