The phrase "although defective" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a contrast or exception regarding something that is flawed or imperfect.
Example: "The product was well-designed, although defective, and required some adjustments before it could be used."
Alternatives: "despite being flawed" or "even though it has issues".
Most of these were due to faulty connections, although defective (often temperature-sensitive) ICs, wiring errors, and/or imperfect printed circuit boards were also encountered.
The surveys of 1871 and 1872, although defective in some particulars, and not equivalent to an actual location or appropriation of the way, were quite as complete and extended as the survey which the Ca non City Company caused to be made in 1877.
Although defective functions of peripheral blood or splenic antigen-presenting cells (APCs) are implicated in the pathogenesis of persistent infection in murine and human hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV -carriers, little is known regarding liver-infiltrating APCs in patients witHCV -carrierser diseases.
To the Sports Editor: Although defective helmets are certainly a contributing cause of concussions in football, the violence of the sport is the major factor in such injuries when youngsters playing the game are taught "to explode" into their opponents when making a tackle, which only increases in magnitude as they become bigger, stronger and faster.
These had evidently extended from the expulsion of the kings to the death of Augustus, and although defective in many places, have proved of the greatest value in chronology.
Although defective negative regulation in gld mice might lead to elevated Treg fractions within the generalized lymphoproliferative state, it is unclear why apoptotic cells are collected from wild type mice.
From the view point of mathematics, although near defective close eigenvalues are distinct, the characteristic of the system is also defective.
Although the defective gene was identified in 1993, the specific mechanisms underlying copper toxicity and the remarkable phenotypic diversity of the disease are still poorly understood.
The report noted that, although the defective concrete cap had been installed by Halliburton, decisions about the installation process made by BP had been the cause of the failure.
(BOEMRE had supplanted the Minerals Management Agency, which had regulated drilling before the spill, in June 2010). The report noted that, although the defective concrete cap had been installed by Halliburton, decisions about the installation process made by BP had been the cause of the failure.
For, although a defective process usually generates a false belief and a meritorious process generates a true belief, yet some beliefs may be true by fluke, in spite of being produced by a defective process.
