Defect vs Impediment - What's the difference?
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A fault or malfunction.
* Macaulay
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The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
* Davies
(math) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
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A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.
* Shakespeare
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(chiefly, in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta
As nouns the difference between defect and impediment
is that defect is a fault or malfunction while impediment is a hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.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.defect
English
(wikipedia defect)Noun
(en noun)- a defect''' in the ear or eye; a '''defect''' in timber or iron; a '''defect of memory or judgment
- Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects .
- Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect . In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”
Derived terms
* defection * defectorExternal links
* * English heteronyms ----impediment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus far into the bowels of the land / Have we marched on without impediment .
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- Working in a noisy factory left him with a slight hearing impediment .
