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That does not cause undue damage in the event of failure. examples
Designed to shut off for safety if an emergency occurs. quotations examples
All equipment is, of course, of "fail-safe" pattern.
1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Automated trains in New York”, in Trains Illustrated, page 78
plural fail-safes
A device, mechanism or measure designed to make something fail-safe. examples
third-person singular simple present fail-safes, present participle fail-safing, simple past and past participle fail-safed
To compensate automatically, in the event of a failure. examples
To make a device or mechanism fail-safe, or to add a fail-safe device or mechanism to an existing system. examples