Defect vs. Error — What's the Difference?

An imperfection or lack that causes inadequacy or failure; a shortcoming or deficiency.

An error (from the Latin error, meaning "wandering") is an action which is inaccurate or incorrect. In some usages, an error is synonymous with a mistake.

To disown allegiance to one's country and take up residence in another

A mistake

To abandon a position or association, often to join an opposing group

An act, assertion, or belief that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.

A fault or malfunction.

The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.

The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.

The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behavior.

(math) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

A mistake.

(intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.

(Mathematics) The difference between a computed or measured value and a true or theoretically correct value.

(military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.

Abbr. E(Baseball) A defensive fielding or throwing misplay by a player when a play normally should have resulted in an out or prevented an advance by a base runner.

(military) To join the enemy army.

(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.

(law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; - opposed to superfluity.

Sin; transgression.

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.

A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.

To fail; to become deficient.

The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.

To abandon one country or faction, and join another.

A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.

To injure; to damage.

One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.

An imperfection in a bodily system;

Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.

A failing or deficiency;

(computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.

An imperfection in a device or machine;

(telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.

A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body);

(nonstandard) To err.

Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army;

A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.

A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.

A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.

The difference between the approximate result and the true result; - used particularly in the rule of double position.

The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.

A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.

A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base.

A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;

Inadvertent incorrectness

A misconception resulting from incorrect information

(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

Departure from what is ethically acceptable

(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

Part of a statement that is not correct;