Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

failsoft

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fail-soft
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system.

Dated

Example Sentences

"1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft executive was developed providing automatic failure detection and recovery […]"
"After automatic self-test, an important follow-on step in improving test set availability is the incorporation of failsoft features in the control software in conjunction with hardware capabilities."
"The redundancy of components (computers, database management systems, operating systems, databases) inherent in a distributed environment makes the system failsoft […]"

Etymology

From fail + soft.

Usage

Dated

Phrases

fail fast

Frequently Paired Words

fail fast fail-deadly fail-safe

Questions

What does failsoft mean?: Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system.
Where does failsoft come from?: From fail + soft.

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