Defect

A defect is a physical, aesthetic, or functional attribute of a product or service that exhibits that the product or service failed to meet one of the desired specification. Defect, defects or defected may refer to:

Science

• Crystallographic defect, defects in the crystal lattice of solid materials

Music

• The Defects, a Northern-Irish punk rock band
• Defected Records, a music label

Other uses

• Product defect, characteristic of a product which hinders its usability
  • Software bug, a failure of computer software to meet requirements
• Defect, the action of defection, abandoning allegiance to one country for another
• Angular defect, failure of some angles to add up to the expected amount of 360° or 180°, when such angles in the Euclidean plane would
• Birth defect, a condition present at birth
• Social defect, a sociological disorder

See also

• Defective (disambiguation)
• Fault (disambiguation)
• Flaw (disambiguation)