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fail-safing

fail-safing is the present participle and gerund of fail-safe.

Meaning of fail-safe

Verb

fail-safe (third-person singular simple present fail-safes, present participle fail-safing, simple past and past participle fail-safed)

  1. To compensate automatically, in the event of a failure.
  2. To make a device or mechanism fail-safe, or to add a fail-safe device or mechanism to an existing system.

See all 5 meanings of fail-safe

Questions about fail-safing

What is fail-safing the present participle and gerund of?
Fail-safing is the present participle and gerund of fail-safe.

Words near fail-safing in the dictionary

  1. fail'd
  2. fail-deadly
  3. fail-safe
  4. fail-safed
  5. fail-safes
  6. fail-safing
  7. fail-secure
  8. fail-soft
  9. failable
  10. failance
  11. failances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fail-safing (page history and authors); fail-safe (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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