fail-safe in English

adjective
1
causing a piece of machinery or other mechanism to revert to a safe condition in the event of a breakdown or malfunction.
a forklift with a fail-safe device
noun
1
a system or plan that comes into operation in the event of something going wrong or that is there to prevent such an occurrence.
the secondary safety system is indeed a fail-safe

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1. Daniel, they' re bypassing the fail safe

2. Robust systems are also fault tolerant and fail-safe.

3. The fail safe trigger signal activates a device (18) which sends a fail safe square wave to a narrow bandwith, digital, band-pass filter (400).

4. Fail-safe and easy access lock for mri receiver coil

5. A 3-pronged fail-safe in the case of an inadvertent nuclear launch.

6. Yeah, what you don't know is when the fail safe idea first came up,

7. Peseshet explains her fail-safe pregnancy test: plant two seeds: one barley, one emmer.

8. At first, closing Credits were not so long, just like in the 1964 movie, Fail Safe

9. DC Braking is NOT considered a fail-safe Braking method and should NOT be relied upon for stopping a machine in case of emergency

10. HCC Bootloaders are fail-safe and if the boot process is interrupted for any reason the system will still be able to fully recover