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- Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering. 1 In science.
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BREAKDOWN equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails fault (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.) blackout the failure of electric power for a general region
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Definitions &Translations failure(noun) an act that fails. his failure to pass the test. failure(noun) an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose. the surprise party was a complete failure. failure(noun) lack of success. he felt that his entire life had been a failure; that year there was a crop failure. failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person(noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently. failure(noun) an unexpected omission.
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Haskell/do notation For instance, Maybe has fail _ = Nothing; analogously, for the list monad fail _ = []. The fail method is an artifact of do notation. Rather than calling fail directly, you should rely on automatic handling of pattern match failures whenever you are sure that fail will do something sensible for the monad you are using.
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What does the Bible say about failure? Answer: To fail from time to time is only human, but to be a failure is when we are defeated by failure, refusing to rise and try again. Christians sometimes believe they should be immune to failure by virtue of their relationship with God, but the truth is that God often allows us to fail for a variety of reasons.Job 14:1 says, Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. That doesn t say unbelievers or the ungodly. It says man born of woman.his means God does not promise life to be without problems, sorrow, and, yes, failure, just because we believe in Him. Luke 9:1-5 describes how Jesus sent His disciples out to preach the gospel and perform miracles. He also taught them how to handle failure.
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Is your cat overweight? How to tell if your feline friend needs to go on a cat diet. It can be tricky to tell if your cat is overweight, particularly if they’re longhaired, and some cats are naturally stockier than others depending on their breed.
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Market Failures, Public Goods, and Externalities Definitions and Basics. Definition: Market failure, from Answers.com An economic term that encompasses a situation where, in any given market, the quantity of a product demanded by consumers does not equate to the quantity supplied by suppliers.
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Heart Failure Heart failure is characterized by the heart’s inability to pump an adequate supply of blood. Without sufficient blood flow, all major body functions are disrupted. Heart failure is a condition or a collection of symptoms that weaken your heart. In some people with heart failure, the heart has difficulty pumping enough blood to support other organs in the body.
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- 1 Failing to win, as in a sport or game: a losing team; a losing lottery ticket.  Of or relating to one that fails to win: a losing season; a losing battle.
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failure Is there not (as the lawyers would style it) a failure of consideration? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 Various Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.
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fail 1 : failure —usually used in the phrase without fail Every day, without fail, he has toast and coffee for breakfast. 2 : a failure (as by a security dealer) to deliver or receive securities within a prescribed period after purchase or sale.
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- Definition of 'fail-safe'. fail-safe also failsafe. Something that is fail-safe is designed or made in such a way that nothing dangerous can happen if a part of it goes wrong. The camera has a built-in failsafe device which prevents it from working if the right signals aren't received. Word Frequency.
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inability Definition of inability. : lack of sufficient power, resources, or capacity his inability to do math.
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break v. dis·o·beyed, dis·o·bey·ing, dis·o·beys. v. intr. To refuse or fail to follow an order or rule. v. tr. To refuse or fail to obey (an order or rule). [Middle English.
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- Defeatism is the acceptance of defeat without struggle, often with negative connotations. It can be linked to pessimism in psychology. The term is commonly used in politics, and especially in the context of war to denote treason: a soldier can be a defeatist if they refuse to fight because they think that the fight will be lost for sure or that it is not worth fighting for some other reason.
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- defeatnoun [ C or U ] uk ​ /dɪˈfiːt/ us ​ /dɪˈfiːt/. B1 the fact of losing against someone in a fight or competition, or when someone or something is made to fail: In the last election, they suffered a crushing/humiliating defeat. After their defeat in battle, the soldiers surrendered. She admitted/conceded defeat well before all the votes had been counted.
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Definition of 'failure' 3. countable noun. If you say that someone is a failure, you mean that they have not succeeded in a particular activity, or that they are unsuccessful at everything they do. Elgar received many honors and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure.
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What is a Market Failure? Market failure is a situation that occurs when resources are not allocated effectively or efficiently. This economic concept can take a number of forms and appear in a variety of situations, and it is often viewed as something that needs to be corrected through intervention, usually on the part of the government, when it appears in the real world.
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Heart Failure Heart failure is a condition in which the heart fails to function properly. The terms heart failure and congestive heart failure (CHF) don't mean that the heart has actually failed or stopped but mean one or more chambers of the heart fail to keep up with the volume of blood flowing through them.
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loser The definition of a loser is a person who is defeated or disadvantaged, is habitually failing or who is considered unpopular. 1  A person who comes in last in a race is an example of a loser. 2  A person who suffers the most as a result of a political move to raise taxes is an example of a loser.
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Defeatism Defeatism. Defeatism is a way of thinking characterized by an acceptance of loss, rejection, and failure. It is a belief that going any further in a situation is futile and nothing matters because things will end negatively.
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- Legal Definition of failure. 1 : omission of occurrence or performance; specifically : a failing to perform a duty or expected action a failure to mitigate damages failure to prosecute. 2 : a lack of success or adequacy failure of a suit.
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Government Failure Government Failure. Definition of government failure : This occurs when government intervention in the economy causes an inefficient allocation of resources and a decline in economic welfare.here are various things the government can try and do to overcome government failure. 1  Give performance targets / profit incentives. 2  Competitive tendering – where public sector bodies face competition from the private sector for the right to run a public service.
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- Aug 08, 2016. Failure projects are those ones that do not meet the original time, cost and quality requirements criteria. The common cause of software project failure: absence of well-defined requirements. This document defines the normative content of the software requirements specification (SRS).
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weak Weak is the opposite of strong. Muscles, arguments, defenses, and coffee can all be weak — and when they are, it's not good. Anything weak is lacking in strength or power. If your muscles are weak, you can't lift much. If your will power is weak, you give up easily. Food and drinks with little flavor are weak, and an argument that is flimsy is weak.
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Defect In other words, a defect is an error in coding or logic that causes a program to malfunction or to produce incorrect/unexpected results. 1  A program that contains a large number of bugs is said to be buggy.