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| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A property introduced at the design stage of an item which prevents its failures from being critical failures. Source: European Union. (references) |
Engineering & Technology | Normally structural design, rather than system, technique in which no crack can cause catastrophic failure of whole structure but is allowed to occur and be detected. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | A designed property of an item which prevents its failures being critical failures. Source: European Union. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | Refers to a principle of design by which, in the event of any failure in a system, the system takes up a safe condition. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
1. Of a device, the capability to fail without detriment to other devices or danger to personnel.
2. Pertaining to the automatic protection of programs and/or processing systems to maintain safety when a hardware or software failure is detected in a system.
3. Pertaining to the structuring of a system such that either it cannot fail to accomplish its assigned mission regardless of environmental factors or that the probability of such failure is extremely low.
The term fail-safe operation has the following meanings:
1. Operation that ensures that a failure of equipment, process, or system does not propagate beyond the immediate environs of the failing entity.
2. A control operation or function that prevents improper system functioning or catastrophic degradation in the event of circuit malfunction or operator error.
Sources: from Federal Standard 1037C and from the National Information Systems Security Glossary in support of MIL-STD-188
See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fail safe."
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Movie/TV Titles | Fail Safe (2000) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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Expression using "FAIL SAFE": fail safe system. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fail safe | 64 |
fail safe movie | 5 |
fail safe thermostat | 4 |
fail safe venom | 3 |
fail safe brakes | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FAIL SAFE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fejlvaern, fejl-sikker, fejlsikker (fail-safe, foolproof), fail safe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | feilborging, faalveilig (fail-safe), veilig falend, veilig (harmless, safe, secure), storingsbeveiliging, betrouwbaar (reliable, trustworthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | turvallinen (safe, secure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sur apres defaillance, sécurité après défaillance (fail-safe), sûr en cas de défaillance (fail-safe), sûr après défaillance (fail-safe), protection contre les dérangements, protégé en cas de défaut, en defaillance sure, sûreté intégrée, a surete integrale, "fail safe". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | folgeschadensicher, Fehlerabsicherung, Fail-Safe (fail-safe), Prinzip des gefahrlosen Ausfalls, Ausfallsicherheit (fail-safe), ausfallsicher (failsafe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προστασία από βλάβη, ασφαλές κατά την αστοχία, ασφαλές από αστοχία (fail-safe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fail-safe (fail-safe), fail safe (fail-safe), sicuro in caso di guasto, sicurezza contro guasto, protezione dai guasti, esente da guasti (fail-safe), dispositivo automatico, autoprotetto, a prova di guasto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ailfay afesay segurança contra falhas críticas (fail-safe), protecção contra falhas, prevenção contra falhas, controlos infaliveis. (various references) fiable (dependable, reliable), fail safe (fail-safe), seguro en caso de fallo, seguridad de funcionamiento (dependability, fail-safe, reliability), prevención contra fallos, a prueba de averías (fail-safe). (various references) säkring mot farligt fel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-f-i-l-s" | |
-2 letters: falsie. | |
-3 letters: aisle, alefs, alfas, alias, alifs, fails, false, fiefs, fifes, files, fleas, flies, leafs. | |
-4 letters: aals, ails, alae, alas, alef, ales, alfa, alif, asea, effs, fail, feal, fief, fife, fila, file, fils, flea, ilea, isle, lase, leaf, leas, leis, lief, lies, life, safe, sail, sale, seal, seif, self, sial. | |
-5 letters: aal, aas, aff. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-f-i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: rafflesia. | |
+2 letters: affiliates, rafflesias. | |
+3 letters: falsifiable. | |
+4 letters: affabilities, disaffiliate. | |
+5 letters: disaffiliated, disaffiliates, unfalsifiable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 41 49 4C 53 41 46 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000001 01001001 01001100 00100000 01010011 01000001 01000110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A I L   S A F E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 0049 004C 0053 0041 0046 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40354346253354039 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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