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Definitions &Translations Defection (noun). act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding. Origin: [L. defectio: cf.
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- A congenital disorder, also known as a congenital disease, deformity, birth defect, or anomaly, is a condition existing at or before birth regardless of cause. Of these disorders, those characterized by structural deformities are termed congenital anomalies and involve defects in a developing fetus. Birth defects vary widely in cause and symptoms. Any substance that causes birth defects is known as a teratogen.
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- flexion-act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased. flexure. bending-the act of bending something. flex-the act of flexing; he gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies. dorsiflexion-the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part).
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disinhibition Definition of disinhibition. : loss or reduction of an inhibition (as by the action of interfering stimuli or events) disinhibition of a reflex disinhibition of violent tendencies.
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- in·hi·bi·tion. n. 1. The act of inhibiting or the state of being inhibited. 2. Something that restrains, blocks, or suppresses. 3. Psychology Conscious or unconscious restraint of a behavioral process, desire, or impulse. 4. a. Chemistry The condition in which or the process by which a reaction is inhibited.nhibition. n. 1. the act of inhibiting or the condition of being inhibited. 2. (Psychology) psychol. a. a mental state or condition in which the varieties of expression and behaviour of an individual become restricted.
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Sigma Performance Levels â One to Six Sigma Defect Rate - The defect rate is the ratio expressed as a percentage, or the number of defects. to the total number of occurrences in the population. Alternately, the Defect Rate (DR) may be expressed as a whole number.
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- Point defects are where an atom is missing or is in an irregular place in the lattice structure. Point defects include self interstitial atoms, interstitial impurity atoms, substitutional atoms and vacancies.
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- -ation. suffix forming nouns. 1. indicating an action, process, state, condition, or result Compare-ion, -tion: arbitration; cogitation; hibernation; moderation. [from Latin -ātiōn-, suffix of abstract nouns, from -ātus-ate 1 + -iōn-ion].
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dereliction 1. deliberate, conscious, or wilful neglect (esp in the phrase dereliction of duty) 2. the act of abandoning or deserting or the state of being abandoned or deserted. 3. (Physical Geography) law. a. accretion of dry land gained by the gradual receding of the sea or by a river changing its course.
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defection abandonment - withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless defection, desertion withdrawal - the act of withdrawing; the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam
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- Nonconformity (quality) In quality management, a nonconformity (also known as a defect) is a deviation from a specification, a standard, or an expectation. Nonconformities are classified as either critical, major, or minor. In software engineering, ISO/IEC 9126 distinguishes between a defect and a nonconformity; a defect is the nonfulfilment of intended usage requirements, whereas a nonconformity is the nonfulfilment of a requirement. A similar distinction is made between validation and verification.
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imperfection Departure of a quality characteristic from its intended level or state. An imperfection, however, does not affect the conformance of the product or service with its specifications or usability. See also blemish, defect, and non-conformity.
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Omission Law and Legal Definition Omission is a failure to carry out or perform an act. Omission is a neglect of duty. Law imposes a duty on every person to take adequate action to prevent a foreseeable injury. In Criminal law, omissions may give rise to lawsuits and will constitute a guilty act if a person breaches his duty.
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Lesion A lesion is any abnormal damage or change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by disease or trauma. Lesion is derived from the Latin word laesio meaning injury. Lesions may occur in plants as well as animals.
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- Compaction definition, the act of compacting or the state of being compacted. See more.
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- scansion. n. 1. (Poetry) the analysis of the metrical structure of verse.See quantity 7, stress 4. [C17: from Latin: climbing up, from scandere to climb, scan].cansion. n. 1. (Poetry) the analysis of the metrical structure of verse. See quantity 7, stress 4. [C17: from Latin: climbing up, from scandere to climb, scan].
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- Definition of DESERTION: The act by which a person abandons and forsakes, without justification,or unauthorized, a station or condition of public or social life, renouncing its res The Law Dictionary Featuring Black's Law Dictionary Free Online Legal Dictionary 2nd Ed.
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- Defect definition, a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine. See more.
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defection Noun. 1. defection-withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless. desertion, abandonment.
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Elision In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. Sometimes sounds are elided to make a word easier to pronounce. The word elision is frequently used in linguistic description of living languages, and deletion is often used in historical linguistics for a historical sound change.
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Elision In linguistics, Elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. Sometimes sounds are elided to make a word easier to pronounce.
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defect In some cases, however, defects can be cured; for example, defective service of process can be cured by the service of an amended complaint. In Product Liability, a defective product is one that cannot be used for the purposes intended or is made dangerous as a result of a flaw or imperfection. Such a defect might exist in the entire design of a product or in the production of a particular individual product.
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alienation alienation the transfer of property, as by conveyance or will, into the ownership of another. ALIENATION, estates. Alienation is an act whereby one man transfers the property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things, to another. It is commonly applied to lands or tenements, as to alien (that is, to convey) land in fee, in mortmain.
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entrapment The act of government agents or officials that induces a person to commit a crime he or she is not previously disposed to commit. Entrapment is a defense to criminal charges when it is established that the agent or official originated the idea of the crime and induced the accused to engage in it.
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Misprision Misprision is a term of English law used to describe certain kinds of offence. Writers on criminal law usually divide misprision into two kinds: negative and positive. It survives in the law of England and Wales and Northern Ireland only in the term misprision of treason.
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conduction The definition of conduction is the movement of something such as heat or electricity through a medium or passage.