Usually means: Difference between actual and calculated mass.
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  1. mass defect: Merriam-Webster
  2. mass defect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mass defect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mass defect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mass defect: Vocabulary.com
  6. mass defect: Wiktionary
  7. mass defect: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. mass defect: Dictionary.com
  9. Mass defect (mass spectrometry), Mass defect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. mass defect: Rhymezone
  11. mass defect: FreeDictionary.org
  12. mass defect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. mass defect: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mass defect: Encyclopedia

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  2. mass defect: Medical dictionary

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  1. Mass Defect: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. MASS DEFECT: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

(Note: See mass_defects as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mass defect)

noun:  (physics) the difference between the mass of an atom and the sum of the masses of its individual components in the free state; equivalent to the binding energy

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