Defective may refer to::
- Defective matrix, in algebra
- Defective verb, in linguistics
- Defective, or haser, in Hebrew orthography, a spelling variant that does not include mater lectionis
- Something presenting an anomaly making it unfunctional
Famous quotes containing the word defective:
“Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)
“Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)