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How to pronounce “fail-safe”
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- Sustainable High-Performance Computing
- Definition summary
- That does not cause undue damage in the event of failure.
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- That does not cause undue damage in the event of failure.
- Designed to shut off for safety if an emergency occurs.
- [Noun]
- A device, mechanism or measure designed to make something fail-safe.
- [Verb]
- 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.
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