fail-safe
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: fāl′sāf, IPA(key): /ˈfeɪlˌseɪf/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]- That does not cause undue damage in the event of failure.
- The system is failsafe, because everything is backed up automatically.
- Designed to shut off for safety if an emergency occurs.
- 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Automated trains in New York”, in Trains Illustrated, page 78:
- All equipment is, of course, of "fail-safe" pattern.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]that does not cause undue damage
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[edit]Noun
[edit]fail-safe (plural fail-safes)
- A device, mechanism or measure designed to make something fail-safe.
Translations
[edit]device or mechanism
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Verb
[edit]fail-safe (third-person singular simple present fail-safes, present participle fail-safing, simple past and past participle fail-safed)
- To compensate automatically, in the event of a failure.
- To make a device or mechanism fail-safe, or to add a fail-safe device or mechanism to an existing system.
Alternative forms
[edit]- fail safe (with differing inflections)
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[edit]References
[edit]- “fail-safe”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.