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failing over

failing over is the present participle and gerund of fail over.

Meaning of fail over

Verb

fail over (third-person singular simple present fails over, present participle failing over, simple past and past participle failed over)

  1. To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.
    • If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second.

Questions about failing over

What is failing over the present participle and gerund of?
Failing over is the present participle and gerund of fail over.

Words near failing over in the dictionary

  1. failing at life
  2. failing closed
  3. failing fast
  4. failing open
  5. failing out
  6. failing over
  7. failing safe
  8. failing that
  9. failing up
  10. failing up the ladder
  11. failing upward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: failing over (page history and authors); fail over (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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