defect

As nouns the difference between defect and badigeon

is that defect is a fault or malfunction while badigeon is a cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors and builders to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

As a verb defect

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

As nouns the difference between defect and dysmorphology

is that defect is a fault or malfunction while dysmorphology is the study of genetic defects, especially congenital malformations.

As a verb defect

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

As a noun defect

is a fault or malfunction.

As a verb defect

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

As an adjective defectible is

able to be defected, able to be turned against.

As nouns the difference between defect and polymelia

is that defect is a fault or malfunction while polymelia is a congenital defect characterized by extra limbs.

As a verb defect

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

As nouns the difference between defect and anopsia

is that defect is a fault or malfunction while anopsia is a defect in vision.

As a verb defect

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

As nouns the difference between defect and divacancy

is that defect is a fault or malfunction while divacancy is (physics) a pair of vacancy defects in a crystal.

As a verb defect

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

As a noun defect

is a fault or malfunction.

As a verb defect

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

As an adjective nondefecting is

that does not defect.

As nouns the difference between defect and monovacancy

is that defect is a fault or malfunction while monovacancy is the absence of a single atom or molecule in a crystal lattice.

As a verb defect

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

As nouns the difference between defect and barreling

is that defect is a fault or malfunction while barreling is a defect in which a testpiece is deformed into a barrel-like shape.

As verbs the difference between defect and barreling

is that defect is to abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party while barreling is .

As nouns the difference between defect and ciliopathy

is that defect is a fault or malfunction while ciliopathy is (medicine) any of a range of genetic disorders involving defects in the cilia or flagella of cells.

As a verb defect

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