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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a minor defect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or insignificant flaw in a product, document, or system.
Example: "The report was well-written, but there was a minor defect in the data analysis section that needed correction."
Alternatives: "a small flaw" or "a slight imperfection."
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The ΔACSIα strain displayed only a minor defect in growth on either maltose or peptides, while no growth defect on these substrates was observed with the ΔACSIIα strain.
Under Local Law 11, a minor defect like that hairline crack has to be listed in a category called Safe With a Repair and Maintenance Program, known by the acronym Swarmp (pronounced the way you would expect).
A blend of 63percentt cabernet franc, the Schneider's favorite red grape, and 37percentt merlot, the ruby-colored wine is densely aromatic and assertively grapey, with a kind of Emeril Lagasse "Bam!" Opaque, sturdy, earthy, expansive and long, with cassis notes (and, a minor defect, bell pepper), the wine has a crowd-pleasing Bordeaux tilt.
Even if there is a minor defect in your credit, you won't get a loan," says Wachter.
The entry seems to suggest a minor defect introduced into monotheism at its earliest stage, a kind of intolerance.
The proportion of insulin resistance versus beta cell dysfunction differs among individuals, with some having primarily insulin resistance and only a minor defect in insulin secretion and others with slight insulin resistance and primarily a lack of insulin secretion.
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Some skin difficulties are symptoms of a psychiatric disorder, such as chronic hair-pulling (trichotillomania), the belief that the body is infested with organisms (delusional parasitosis), preoccupation with and distress about an imagined or minor defect (body dysmorphic disorder), and self-inflicted damage to the skin (dermatitis artefacta).
These two admirable books share one minor defect – a clumsy translation into English of the notorious "mot de Cambronne".
At first the home builder corrected a few minor defects, but now he won't even come out any more.
The ID/IG is used also as a purity index to assess the quality of CNT with minor defect and with very low a-C content [29].
Expression of a functional, amino-terminal-tagged full-length Myc-β-Spec in all muscle cells with twi-GAL4 exacerbated the fusion defect in the βH-spec-/ mutant (left panel) and caused a minor fusion defect in wild-type (right panel) embryos.
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