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BFT

BFT is the initialism of Byzantine fault tolerance.

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Meaning of Byzantine fault tolerance

Noun

Byzantine fault tolerance (usually uncountable, plural Byzantine fault tolerances)

  1. (usually) The dependability of a fault-tolerant (distributed) computer system, where components may fail without perfect information about the state of the components.
    • Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) came about since it represents a valid solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem. BFT is a crucial part of an effective blockchain platform, and there are multiple ways in which tolerance can be implemented.2020, Joseph Holbrook, Architecting Enterprise Blockchain Solutions, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 121
    Synonyms:
    BFT

Proper noun capitalized: Bft

Bft

  1. Beaufort scale

Questions about BFT

What does BFT mean?
BFT means beaufort scale.
What is BFT the initialism of?
BFT is the initialism of Byzantine fault tolerance.
What part of speech is BFT?
BFT is a proper noun.

Words near BFT in the dictionary

  1. BFQ
  2. BFQs
  3. bfr
  4. BFRBD
  5. bfs
  6. BFT
  7. BFTT
  8. BFV
  9. BFVs
  10. bg
  11. Bg.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BFT (page history and authors); Bft (page history and authors); Byzantine fault tolerance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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