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What (who) is fail-safe - definition
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Fail-Safe; Fail Safe (movie); Fail safe (disambiguation); Fail Safe; Fail-Safe (film)
fail-safe
![An aircraft lights its [[afterburner]]s to maintain full power during an [[arrested landing]] aboard an [[aircraft carrier]]. If the arrested landing fails, the aircraft can safely take off again.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FA-18-Afterburners.jpg?width=200 "An aircraft lights its [[afterburner]]s to maintain full power during an [[arrested landing]] aboard an [[aircraft carrier]]. If the arrested landing fails, the aircraft can safely take off again.")
¦ adjective
1. causing a piece of machinery to revert to a safe condition in the event of a breakdown.
2. unlikely or unable to fail.
Fail-safe
In engineering, a fail-safe is a design feature or practice that in the event of a specific type of failure, inherently responds in a way that will cause minimal or no harm to other equipment, to the environment or to people. Unlike inherent safety to a particular hazard, a system being "fail-safe" does not mean that failure is impossible or improbable, but rather that the system's design prevents or mitigates unsafe consequences of the system's failure.
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also failsafe
Something that is fail-safe is designed or made in such a way that nothing dangerous can happen if a part of it goes wrong.
The camera has a built-in failsafe device which prevents it from working if the right signals aren't received.
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Fail-safe (disambiguation)
A fail-safe describes a device which, if or when it fails, will cause a minimum of harm.
Fail-safe may also refer to:
- Fail-Safe (novel), a 1962 novel about an accidental sortie of American nuclear bombers against the USSR
- Fail Safe (1964 film), a 1964 film, based on the novel, directed by Sidney Lumet
- Fail Safe (2000 film), a 2000 made-for-television drama, based on the novel, starring George Clooney
- Fail-Safe Investing, a 1999 finance book by Harry Browne
- Failsafe (UK band), a Preston-based punk rock band
- "Failsafe", a song first recorded by The Choir Practice and that appeared on the New Pornographers album Challengers
- "Fail Safe" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the science fiction television series
- "Fail-Safe" (Legends of Tomorrow), an episode of Legends of Tomorrow
Examples of use of fail-safe
1. There is no fail–safe net for those clinging to the precipitous economic edge.
2. We can minimise the risk of accidents, as in the new generation of fail–safe reactors.
3. Even so, secular rationality is no fail–safe prophylactic against murderous ideology.
4. The 2 billion European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR) model, is also designed to be fail safe.
5. Storing duplicate seeds in the Svalbard vault is meant to offer a fail–safe system for the planet.