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Defunct vs Malfunction - What's the difference?

defunct | malfunction |

As verbs the difference between defunct and malfunction

is that defunct is to make defunct while malfunction is to function improperly.

As nouns the difference between defunct and malfunction

is that defunct is the dead person (referred to) while malfunction is faulty functioning.

As an adjective defunct

is deceased, dead.

defunct

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deceased, dead.
  • * Shakespeare
    • defunct organs
  • * Byron
    • The boar, defunct , lay tripped up, near.
  • No longer in use, inactive.
  • (computing) Specifically, of a program: that has terminated but is still shown in the list of processes because the parent process that created it is still running and has not yet reaped it. See also zombie, zombie process.
  • (business) No longer in business or service.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make defunct.

    • Noun

  • The dead person (referred to).
  • * 1817 September , in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine , volume 1, page 617:

    • Related terms

    * function * bankrupt

    malfunction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • faulty functioning
  • failure to function

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to function improperly
    • She told him the machine was poorly built, but they both knew that she was the one who had malfunctioned .
  • to fail to function