Defect vs. Deficiency — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Defect and Deficiency
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Defect
An imperfection or lack that causes inadequacy or failure; a shortcoming or deficiency.
Deficiency
The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.
Defect
To disown allegiance to one's country and take up residence in another
A Soviet citizen who defected to Israel.
Deficiency
A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health
A nutritional deficiency.
Defect
To abandon a position or association, often to join an opposing group
Defected from the party over the issue of free trade.
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Deficiency
(uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
Defect
A fault or malfunction.
A defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment
Deficiency
(countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
Defect
The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
Deficiency
(geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
Defect
(math) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
Deficiency
(geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
Defect
(intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
Deficiency
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
Defect
(military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
Deficiency
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;
There is a serious lack of insight into the problem
Water is the critical deficiency in desert regions
For want of a nail the shoe was lost
Defect
(military) To join the enemy army.
Deficiency
Lack of an adequate quantity or number;
The inadequacy of unemployment benefits
Defect
(law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.
Defect
Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; - opposed to superfluity.
Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.
Defect
Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know,Make use of every friend - and every foe.
Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.
Defect
To fail; to become deficient.
Defect
To abandon one country or faction, and join another.
Defect
To injure; to damage.
Defect
An imperfection in a bodily system;
Visual defects
This device permits detection of defects in the lungs
Defect
A failing or deficiency;
That interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information
Defect
An imperfection in a device or machine;
If there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer
Defect
A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body);
A facial blemish
Defect
Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army;
If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot
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