having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
faulty
How to use faulty in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for faulty.
Editorial note
By the grace of faulty nylon, I'm still here.
Quick take
having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of faulty gathered in one view.
characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules; "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for faulty.
adjective
having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
See also: defective
adjective
characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules; "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"
Example sentences
By the grace of faulty nylon, I'm still here.
[2] Colors were indexed from 0-255 with ACI[0] being "byblock" so the logic was actually faulty.
He did not get it here, and that is a sad testament to how crowd-inspired frenzies can bend our perceptions in such faulty ways.
I don't think calling Apple out on selling a faulty $3000 laptop and refusing to repair it counts as histrionics or spam.
For example, a faulty data model that is let to grow to terabytes of information.
They first sort the faulty batch into two categories: the better ones that can be salvaged by LG itself, and the worse ones that have to go somewhere else.
[Edit: I last did this in 2006 and my recollection on some of the steps I took was faulty, so I've corrected them above and made it a little more flow-charty.
It is to accept the faulty premise that privacy is about hiding something -- that it is an active attempt to conceal information from the world.
Byzantine agreement with 3f+1 nodes can handle at most f faulty nodes, while Bitcoin can tolerate 49% of the network hashing power being malicious.
You're also relying on potentially faulty/emotional memories rather than having an actual stored account of issues.
To prevent this, you would need to be able to detect when a node is faulty/malicious which would require implementing a costly Byzantine Consensus Protocol [1].
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use faulty in a sentence?
By the grace of faulty nylon, I'm still here.
What does faulty mean?
having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
What part of speech is faulty?
faulty is commonly used as adjective.