English Dictionary

defective

/dɪˈfɛktɪv/

noun

A person or thing considered to be defective. / (chiefly of abjad script) A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).

The company recalled the defective product.

意味（1）

A person or thing considered to be defective.

There were many more kinds of mental institutions at mid-century, ones for mental defectives and epileptics and the mentally retarded, psychiatric wards in veterans hospitals, as well as psychopathic and private mental hospitals.

意味（2）

(chiefly of abjad script) A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).

Thus, in the Pentateuch and in the earlier prophets the plenes are counted, whilst in the later prophets the defectives are enumerated.