The phrase "defective on" can be used in certain contexts to describe something that is lacking or not working properly.
It is typically used in technical or legal language, and may not be suitable for every day written English. Example: "The product was found to be defective on multiple levels, leading to a recall by the manufacturer." In this sentence, "defective on" is used to indicate the various issues or faults that were present in the product.
Also, it is expected that the film will be more defective on the nanotip BE surface.
This is defective on the proposal: not all offer-possibilities are accept-possibilities.
As Engadget notes, the process of locking portions of a chip is fairly common but it usually happens because that area is defective on manufacture.
It is later revealed that the warrant was defective on its face, as the FBI had no basis to believe the "new" emails were either new, evidence of a crime, or accompanied by the specific intent to violate federal law that Comey had already said (in July) would be necessary to prove a prosecutable crime.
The tumor microenvironment is markedly defective on oxygen and nutrients, which seems to have a huge influence on the selection and survival of cancer stem cell populations.
Previous work indicates that 5′-transcript capping is defective on T7 transcripts in yeast, which may have provided the block to a1 translation in our assays (Pinkham et al. 1994; Dower and Rosbash 2002).
Infrequent detachment of lateral kinetochores during both successful end-on conversion and defective end-on conversion demonstrates the stable nature of lateral kinetochores.
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.
We are being subjected to all this finger-wagging because of the sometimes vile behaviour of a bunch of ethical defectives on the red-tops, who are nothing to do with us.
The effect of fuzziness of fraction of defectives on optimal solutions is illustrated by a numerical example.
After unloading for investigation, these catalyst particles come in open atmosphere and, hence, become oxidized due to oxygen attachment on the defective sites on the top surface of the iron catalyst particles.
