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We found 45 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word defect:
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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. defect: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. defect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. defect: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. defect: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Defect: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. defect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. defect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. defect: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. defect: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. defect (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. defect: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. defect: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Defect (geometry), Defect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Defect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. defect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. defect: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. Defect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. defect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. defect: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. defect: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. defect: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. defect: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. defect: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Defect: Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Defect: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. defect: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
  3. defect: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
  4. Defect: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
  5. Defect: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  6. defect: Glossary of Error-Proofing Terms [home, info]
  7. DEFECT: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  8. defect: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  9. defect: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. defect: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. defect: Netlingo [home, info]
  3. defect: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. defect: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. defect: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. Defect: Skin Cancer Information [home, info]
  4. defect: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Defect: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
  2. defect: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Defect: Building pathology glossary [home, info]
  2. Defect: Glossary of Cheese Terms [home, info]
  3. Defect -: Glossary of Woodworking Terms [home, info]

Quick definitions (defect)

noun:  a failing or deficiency ("That interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information")
noun:  an imperfection in a bodily system ("Visual defects")
noun:  an imperfection in a device or machine ("If there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer")
noun:  a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
verb:  desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

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Phrases that include defect:   vision defect, latent defect, afferent pupillary defect, autosomal recessive defect, defect enzyme, more...

Words similar to defect:   flaw, blemish, defected, defecting, defector, desert, fault, shortcoming, more...


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