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English adjective: fail-safe | |||
| 1. | fail-safe guaranteed not to fail | ||
| Samples | A fail-safe recipe for cheese souffle. | ||
| Similar | secure | ||
| Antonyms | unsafe, insecure | ||
| 2. | fail-safe eliminating danger by compensating automatically for a failure or malfunction | ||
| Samples | A fail-safe device in a nuclear weapon to deactivate it automatically in the event of accident. | ||
| Similar | safe | ||
| Antonyms | dangerous, unsafe | ||
English noun: fail-safe | |||
| 1. | fail-safe (artifact) a mechanism capable of returning to a safe state in case there is a failure or malfunction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mechanism | ||
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