default

default (dɪˈfɔːlt)
—n
1.	a failure to act, esp a failure to meet a financial obligation or to appear in a court of law at a time specified
2.	absence or lack
3.	by default in the absence of opposition or a better alternative: he became prime minister by default
4.	in default of through or in the lack or absence of
5.	law judgment by default a judgment in the plaintiff's favour when the defendant fails to plead or to appear
6.	lack, want, or need
7.	computing
	a.  the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
	b.  (as modifier): default setting
—vb
8.	(intr; often foll by on or in) to fail to make payment when due
9.	(intr) to fail to fulfil or perform an obligation, engagement, etc: to default in a sporting contest
10.	law to lose (a case) by failure to appear in court
11.	(tr) to declare that (someone) is in default
[C13: from Old French defaute, from defaillir to fail, from Vulgar Latin dēfallīre (unattested) to be lacking]

default

notice of, be concealed from." The financial sense is first recorded 1858; the computing sense is from 1966.

default definition

Failure to pay a debt when it is due.

default definition

data
A value or thing to use when none is specified by the user. Defaults are important for making systems behave in a predictable way without the user having to give lots of "obvious" details.
For example: the default TCP/IP port for the HTTP protocol is 80, the Unix ls command does not list files whose names begin with ".", the default number base in most contexts is 10 (decimal), the default filename extension for Microsoft Word documents is ".doc".
(2009-02-20)

default

see in default of.