A product's or service's nonfulfillment of an intended requirement or reasonable expectation for use, including safety considerations. There are four classes of defects: class 1, very serious, leads directly to severe injury or catastrophic economic loss; class 2, serious, leads directly to significant injury or significant economic loss; class 3, major, is related to major problems with respect to intended normal or reasonably foreseeable use; and class 4, minor, is related to minor problems with respect to intended normal or reasonably foreseeable use (see also "blemish," "imperfection" and "nonconformity").
Any irregularity or imperfection in a tree, log, piece, product, or lumber that reduces the volume of sound wood or lowers its durability, strength, or utility value.
Internal or external flaw or blemish. Harmful defects can render material unsuitable for specific end use.
Any irregularity occurring in or on a material.
This is an imperfection which, if great enough, can prevent an item from working properly or being usable.
a flaw or quality that prevents something from being whole or complete or perfect; as a verb, to leave your country, party, often in order to join the opposition I discovered that this system had a hidden defect which prevented it from working. She decided not to defect after there was a change of government. defective (adj), defectiveness (n), defector (n), defection (n)
an imperfection in a bodily system; "visual defects"; "this device permits detection of defects in the lungs"
a failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information"
an imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish"
a blemish or fault that takes away from the book being "As New", and thus reduces its value
a fault, flaw, or irregularity that causes weakness, failure, or inadequacy in form or function
a flaw in the design of a system
an imperfection that renders a product unsafe for its intended or reasonably foreseeable uses
a problem detected in the output from an activity, such as a bug in software or a flaw in design
a small imperfection affecting a few atoms
An undesirable blemish within the functional pattern or background, commonly called flecks, voids, pin holes, spurs, notches, etc.
A problem or "bug" that, if not removed, could cause a program to either produce erroneous results or otherwise fail.
Technical fault with an item of equipment or machinery that cannot be repaired by ship staff.
A discontinuity or discontinuities that by nature or accumulated effect (for example, total crack length) render a part or product unable to meet minimum applicable acceptance standards or specifications. This term designates rejectability. See also discontinuity and flaw.
Popularly known as a bug. A programming error that causes the program to fail, i.e. not accomplish its nominal task.
A physical flaw in a microcircuit that may inhibit microcircuit performance or that may cause a chain of events that will inhibit performance in the near future. Defects include gate oxide shorts, interconnect imperfections, leaky reverse-bias pn junctions, etc.
Any fault or flaw that detracts from perfection.
A fault or error in a product. Add and track defects using StarTeam's Change Request component.
Refers to a quality imperfection found in the thread. Thread defects include: slubs, knots, neps, slack twists, corkscrew twists, and singles kinks.
Any flaw that detracts from the appearance or the structure of a comic book and keeps it from perfection.
A substandard condition. [D04066] CSM The non-fulfillment of intended usage requirements. [D00490] ISO 8402 QMPP Any non-conformance of a characteristic with specified requirements. [D00491] MIL-STD 105 QMPP Any condition or characteristic in any supplies or services furnished by the Contractor under the contract that is not in compliance with the requirements of the contract. [D03491] GAT An anomaly, or flaw, in a delivered work product. Examples include such things as omissions and imperfections found during early lifecycle phase s and symptoms of fault s contained in software sufficiently mature for test or operation. A defect can be any kind of issue you want tracked and resolved. See also change request. [D04714] RUP
Noncomformance to requirements. See anomaly, bug, error, exception, fault, failure
Flaw or imperfection. Any unintentional and undesirable irregularity in the part surface that could affect system performance. Examples of such defects include cracks, inclusions, blistering, dents, pits, stringers and scratches.
A discontinuity or other imperfection causing a reduction in the quality of a material or component.
An imperfection in a tree making it less desirable for some purpose. The term is commonly used to refer to some imperfection that will reduce the value of a tree or log for a product, resulting in reduced monetary value.
A blemish, imperfection or deficiency. A defective title is one that is irregular and faulty.
A defect is an error or omission in a product which has not shown evidence of its existence. When the defect is identified, it becomes a bug. Defects are often known as hidden defects or hidden bugs.
an imperfection in a material that contributes significantly to failure or limited serviceability.
A flaw in any aspect of the system. See Error.
An imperfection of sufficient magnitude to warrant rejection of the product bakes on the stipulations of these specifications.
an imperfection in a film or pattern. Defect Density - the number of killer defects per unit area on a wafer.
1. Lack of a necessary item for completeness. 2. An imperfection, weakness, blemish, fault, etc. 3. To forsake or join the opposition.