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Defect

Defect meaning

A fault or malfunction. | The quantity or amount by which anything falls short. | A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

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This result may also be stated as: the defect of triangles in hyperbolic geometry is positive, the defect of triangles in Euclidean geometry is zero, and the defect of triangles in elliptic geometry is negative.

Another defect of importance is the hydrogen containing growth defect, when instead of a Si-O-Si structure, a pair of Si-OH HO-Si groups is formed; essentially a hydrolyzed bond.

Congenital heart defect Atrial septal defect with left-to-right shunt.

If the entire population plays Tit-for-Tat and a mutant arises who plays Always Defect, Tit-for-Tat will outperform Always Defect.

Immunodeficiency As the thymus is the organ of T-cell development, any congenital defect in thymic genesis or a defect in thymocyte development can lead to a profound T cell deficiency in primary immunodeficiency disease.

Of those with heart disease, about 80% have an atrioventricular septal defect or ventricular septal defect with the former being more common.

Schematic illustration of some simple point defect types in a monatomic solid *A nearby pair of a vacancy and an interstitial is often called a Frenkel defect or Frenkel pair.

The first two strategies do the same thing regardless of the other player's actions, while the later responds on the next round by doing what was done to it on the previous round—it responds to Cooperate with Cooperate and Defect with Defect.

Thus, only the immediate purchaser could recover for a product defect, and if a part was built up out of parts from parts manufacturers, the ultimate buyer could not recover for injury caused by a defect in the part.

Thus, the player might as well defect on the second-to-last turn, since the opponent will defect on the last no matter what is done, and so on.

What constitutes an "acceptable defect rate" depends on the nature of the software; A flight simulator video game would have much higher defect tolerance than software for an actual airplane.

When a defect is identified on the passing train, the system responds with her recorded voice announcing the defect location information to the train crew over the radio.

A manufacturing defect in the wiring harness of the rear boot lid may cause intermittent operation of the rear-view camera, loss of satellite radio reception, inoperative luggage compartment lamp and/or inoperable luggage compartment release.

And presenting a physical examination report for Bwalya, Doctor Brian Sonkwe from the University Teaching Hospitals, said an examination found that the accused has a spinal defect.

And while if you had a genetic defect of sclerostin, you might get these problems the ability for us to knock down the level of cost to the degree required, I think, is very different from a genetic deficiency state.

As Ceaușescu's paranoia reaches a fever pitch, Godeanu uses a diplomatic trip to West Germany to attempt to defect to the United States.

Candidates include the inherited condition sickle cell anaemia, in which a single gene defect disrupts haemoglobin production with serious consequences for patients, who suffer anaemia because their bodies are starved of oxygen.

Doctors determined the “probable cause” of the cardiac arrest was “an anatomically and functionally significant Congenital Heart Defect which can and will be treated,” the family said in a statement.

Four days later Ms. Cotham announced her decision to defect.

Further, the agency can still take action if it finds that a safety-related defect exists.