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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Machines - not functioning
act up
balky
blooey
break
break down
brokenness
brownout
burn out
downtime
flat
malfunction
outage
seize
seize up
short circuit
shot
shudder
shut
shut (something) down
shutdown

Examples of malfunctioning

malfunctioning

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

They occur when the number of entities involved in a malfunctioning system is relatively large.
It may be that threat simulations are associated with increased cortical activation, leading to intensive motor imagery that breaks through the malfunctioning inhibitory mechanisms.
Due to unit-modularity, the redundant modules can replace the malfunctioning ones, so the local failure will not affect the systemic working.
Loosely, this assumption states that following brain injury unaffected processes function normally - their functioning does not change to compensate for the malfunctioning of damaged processes.
Indeed, the functioning and malfunctioning of the system are dual21 and must be studied together to control each system variable (control and degradation variable).
In this model, older people are reduced to their bodies and their malfunctioning.
They described the unfortunate patient's malfunctioning brain as being the object of attention and interest neither to the medical man nor to the psychiatrist.
This is usually due to settings not set correctly, or malfunctioning printer par ts.
This argues that threat-avoidance programs of dreaming, if useful, may become malfunctioning in several ways: either too active or not active enough.
The state is also implicated when fragmentation is explained by weak, malfunctioning, or non-existent political and economic institutions.
The staff also enquired if the people noticed any malfunctioning of the trap during the night.
A genetic test does provide precise information on the presence or not of a malfunctioning gene.
Two ways that a malfunctioning mood oscillator could cause depression: wrong phase or low amplitude.
The degradation identification represents the system's malfunctioning states from the property deviations of system flows identified through a monitoring process.
In fact, ecological economics has provided us with much insight into the nature of those allocation failures that arise from malfunctioning markets.
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