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Definitioner
Adjektiv
- Having one or more defects.
- (grammar, of a lexeme, especially a verb) lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
Substantiv
- A person considered to be defective.
Exempel
- It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
- 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.
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