Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
f. 1 Inadequate extent or pervasion of a proposition.
2 Non-inclusion or exclusion of a part of the thing defined, one of the three faults of a definition; lakṣyaikadeśe lakṣaṇasyāvartanamavyāptiḥ; yathā śi- khāsūtravān brāhmaṇaḥ ityasya saṃnyāsinyavyāptiḥ, ta- sya brāhmaṇatvepi śikhāsūtratvābhāvāt.
