fault tolerance.

A system’s capacity to continue operating acceptably when particular components or functions fail.

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Words that belong together

• fault-tolerant design
• improve fault tolerance

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The design improved fault tolerance by allowing one failed unit to be isolated.

The engineer asked which failures the claimed fault tolerance actually covered.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.