Fail-safe Definition

fālsāf
fail-safe
adjective
Designating, of, or involving a procedure designed to prevent malfunctioning or unintentional operation, often specif. of nuclear-armed aircraft, through an intricate system of protective devices.
Webster's New World
Capable of compensating automatically and safely for a failure, as of a mechanism or power source.
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Acting to discontinue a military attack on the occurrence of any of various predetermined conditions.
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Guaranteed not to fail.
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Alternative form of fail-safe.

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Synonyms:
noun
A fail-safe mechanism.
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verb

To compensate automatically, in the event of a failure.

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Fail-safe Sentence Examples

  • Because they do not fail-safe, they should not be used for temperature limiting duty.

  • The only fail-safe appeared similar to proprietes electriques des.

  • The only fail-safe a piece of uranium rays had for many physicists.

  • The on-board microprocessor provides fail-safe operation, by continuously monitoring the signal from the receiver.

  • In fact all of the controls would be fail-safe self-policing procedures.

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