Word Meanings - DEFECTIBILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.

TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
DEFICIENCY
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiencyof blood." Arbuthnot. was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a
IMPERFECTION
The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish. Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. Shak. Syn. -- Defect; deficiency; incompleteness; fault; failing; weakness;
INDEFICIENCY
The state or quality of not being deficient. Strype.