Fall-through Definition

verb

(intransitive, idiomatic) To be unsuccessful, abort, come to nothing/naught; to be cancelled; not to proceed.

Their plans to go hiking Saturday fell through because it rained.
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(computing) In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected.

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Other Word Forms of Fall-through

Noun

Singular:
fall-through
Plural:
fall-throughs

Fall-through Sentence Examples

  • It didn't fall through but remained where it landed.

  • Conquered by the Seljuks of Konia, and made the capital of the province of Tekke, it passed after their fall through many hands, including those of the Venetians and Genoese, before its final occupation by the Ottoman Turks under Murad II.

  • The blanks fall through an aperture after having been heated for a few minutes.

  • The southward slopes fall through ever-thinning pasture lands to sheer desert about 80 m.

  • A common example of this method is the determination of the specific heat of a liquid by filling a small calorimeter with the liquid, raising it to a convenient temperature, and then setting it to cool in an enclosure at a steady temperature, and observing the time taken to fall through a given range when the conditions have become fairly steady.

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