Business Dictionary.com:
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[General] Frailty or shortcoming that prevents an item from being complete, desirable, effective, sales, or of merit, or makes it to malfunction or fail in its purpose.
[Manufacturing] Non-conformance of a product with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations (including the safety aspects).
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary:
(dictionary.cambridge.org)
[Noun, C]
1. A fault, problem or lack in something or someone that spoils them or causes them not to work correctly.
2. A physical condition in which something is wrong with a part of someone's body.
The Free Dictionary:
(www.thefreedictionary.com)
[Noun]
1. The lack of something necessary or desirable for completion or perfection; a deficiency.
2. An imperfection that causes inadequacy or failure; a shortcoming.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
(www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/)
1. (a) An imperfection that impairs worth or utility; (b) An imperfection (as a vacancy or an unlike atom) in a crystal lattice.
2. A lack of something necessary for completeness, adequacy or perfection.
