The phrase "a defective one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an item or object that is faulty or not functioning properly.
Example: "After examining the product, we found that it was a defective one and needed to be replaced."
Alternatives: "a faulty one" or "a flawed one".
Olympics satire Twenty Twelve did it when the real Olympic clock ground to a halt just hours after the BBC comedy featured a defective one.
For a near-defective system with close eigenvalues, we first transform it into a defective one, and then apply the same method to deal with near-defective systems.
Nobody wants the cheapest machine-tool when a defective one can cause millions of pounds-worth of damage.They owe their success to four qualities.
A perfect product delivered late by friendly, caring people is the equivalent of a defective one.
The problem is not that USC lacked a safety net; it's that it knowingly maintained a defective one.
Therefore, all the cancer drug designers try either to activate the inactivated apoptotic mechanism or rectify a defective one.
But what if, as I believe, the law we have is an utterly defective one?
Once considered a graveyard for genes, it's actually quite dynamic, shuffling its genes around to weed out any defective ones.
Women who carry a defective gene on one X chromosome can compensate with the good copy on their other X chromosome, but they bequeath the defective copy to half their children.
The novel executes the plot conscientiously and cleverly, but seems frequently to look away from it, dwelling instead on such matters as loving Australia even as one leaves it, and the love the two brothers bear each other even as the elder regards the younger, defective one as a burdensome nuisance and is regarded in turn as an inconsiderate exploiter and a grotesque egoist.
Instead, he felt like a freak -- incomplete" and "physically defective," one might say.
