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SUDDEN FAILURE

Specialty Definition: SUDDEN FAILURE

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Electrical Engineering

The failure of a semiconductor to meet a required specification, occurring in an abrupt and unpredictable fashion. Source: European Union. (references)

Meteorology & Standards

Failure that could not be anticipated by prior examination or monitoring. Source: European Union. (references)

Post & Telecom

A failure that could not be anticipated by prior examination or monitoring. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SUDDEN FAILURE

Specialty definitions using "SUDDEN FAILURE": Wrecks. (references)

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Modern Translation: SUDDEN FAILURE

Language Translations for "SUDDEN FAILURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

pludselig fejl, bratfejl. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

plotselings storing, plotselinge fout, plotselinge feil. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

äkkivika, äkillisvika, äkillinen vika. (various references)

   

French

  

panne subite, dérangement soudain, défaillance soudaine. (various references)

   

German

  

Sprungausfall, plötzlicher Fehler, plötzliche Störung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξαφνική αστοχία, αιφνίδια βλάβη, αιφνίδια αποτυχία, απρόβλεπτη βλάβη. (various references)

   

Italian

  

guasto improvviso, cedimento inaspettato. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uddensay ailurefay

   

Portuguese

  

falha súbita, falha repentina, avaria brusca. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fallo súbito, fallo repentino. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

plötsligt fel. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SUDDEN FAILURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-f-i-l-n-r-s-u-u"

-3 letters: desulfured.

-4 letters: deadlines, defilades, dreadfuls, enfiladed, enfilades, feudaries, flaneries, frauleins, laundered, laundries, reinfused, slandered, undefiled, underlaid, underlies, underside, underused, undesired, unriddles.

-5 letters: alieners, arsenide, dandlers, daunders, deadlier, deadline, defilade, defilers, definers, defrauds, delaines, deluders, denarius, denuders, derailed, desulfur, diurnals, dreadful, dreidels, enfilade, failures, federals, fiddlers, fielders, filarees, flanerie, flaneurs, flinders, fraulein, friended, funerals.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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