act or result of not achieving your goals

plural of failure

The frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour.

(geology) An effect of seismic activity, such as an earthquake, where the ground becomes very soft, due to the shaking, and acts like a liquid, causing landslides, spreading, and settling.

(of a young adult) Inability to leave home and begin a self-supported life.

(pediatrics) Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers. / (medicine, chiefly geriatrics) Abnormal weight loss, malaise.

plural of heart-failure

Loss of the load-carrying capacity of a component or member within a structure or of the structure itself. Structural failure is initiated when the material in a structure is stressed to its strength limit, thus causing fracture or excessive deformations.

An unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity

plural of power failure