plural of fail-safe

Alternative form of feal and divot

present participle of fail-safe

simple past tense and past participle of fail-safe

(transgender) Said of a trans man, to fail to pass as a female owing to a successful female-to-male transition.

(transgender) Said of a trans woman, to fail to pass as a male owing to a successful MTF transition.

(computing) Able to proceed even after an error condition by selectively skipping parts of the processing.

(military) In nuclear weapons strategy: encouraging deterrence by guaranteeing an immediate, automatic, and overwhelming response to an attack, even if the command-and-control infrastructure has been damaged by the enemy's first strike.

(astronomy) An event that ends the fusion lifetime of a large and massive star. It is a partial type-II supernova, where the collapse process occurs, but no significant rebound occurs, and the nascent black hole swallows the incoming implosion resulting in no outbound explosion or subsequent light burst.

plural of fail dyke