crashnoun(FAILURE)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Faults and mistakes
(that's) your hard luckidiom
aberration
Achilles heel
adrift
black mark
blemish
errata
erratum
error
failing
false move
loophole
malaprop
miscue
misfunction
misperception
snag list
that's/it's your funeral!idiom
typo
uncorrectable

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Machines - not functioning

malfunction | American Dictionary

malfunction
verb[ I ]
us/mælˈfʌŋk·ʃən/
(of a machine, piece of equipment, or organ) to fail to work correctly:
The equipment malfunctions at temperatures below freezing.

malfunction

noun[ C ]us/mælˈfʌŋk·ʃən/
a computer malfunction

malfunction | Business English

malfunction
verb[ I ]
/ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃən/ukus
if a machine or system malfunctions, it stops working normally:
The system is designed to stop computers getting too hot and malfunctioning.
malfunction
noun[ C or U ]
/ˌmælˈfʌŋkʃən/ukus
a situation in which a machine or system stops working normally:
Investigators believe the spillage was caused by a malfunction at the plant in the immediate aftermath of the earth tremor.
a technical/mechanical/electrical malfunction
a computer/equipment/system(s) malfunction

Examples of malfunction

malfunction
The degradation identification represents the system's malfunctioning states from the property deviations of system flows identified through a monitoring process.
Rulebased diagnosis uses rules in abductive reasoning, representing empirical associations that relate symptoms to the underlying malfunctions.
The question now is whether these suggestions for soil conservation also hold in a context characterized by malfunctioning credit markets.
However, malfunctions are sometimes deliberately triggered for constr uctive ends.
His only responsibilities were obtaining informed consent, coordinating interviews, and resolving technical issues such as computer (or pencil) malfunctions.
Unfortunately, due to hardware malfunctions, only a limited number of experiments were performed.
The norms and vocabularies elaborated confer a new visibility on the workings of the family and new ways of identifying its malfunctions.
In addition, the malfunctioning robot should be able to broadcast a chemical plume to identify itself and to indicate its position.
High information, monitoring and transaction costs, lack of collateral following unenforceable property rights, and moral hazard problems all contribute to absent or malfunctioning credit markets in these economies.
Although it provides directions to incorporate malfunctions annunciation for the critical components and assemblies of the system, yet it cannot be used for the diagnosability evaluation of the system.
The use of sensors implied deviation from some nominal condition and in robotised arc welding a change of path could lead to several malfunctions that had to be detected.
In other cases, the new microsound is beatless and focuses on textures often assembled from microsonic elements, again often culled from computer malfunctions or from the creative misuse of technology.
Catches from traps that malfunctioned were discarded.
Thousands of genes can be profiled at the same time, giving insight into an individual's genome, its functions, and, of generally greater interest to the individual, its malfunctions.
Deep changes may be necessary if the back-offices are malfunctioning to any significant degree and/or the service is not coming up to acceptable standards or to various user demands.
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