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fault-tolerant

fault-tolerant adjective: tolerating a fault or faults such that no cessation to operation occurs.

Adjective

fault-tolerant (comparative more fault-tolerant, superlative most fault-tolerant)

  1. Tolerating a fault or faults such that no cessation to operation occurs.

Forms of fault-tolerant

comparativemore fault-tolerant
superlativemost fault-tolerant

Questions about fault-tolerant

What does fault-tolerant mean?
Fault-tolerant means tolerating a fault or faults such that no cessation to operation occurs.
What part of speech is fault-tolerant?
Fault-tolerant is an adjective.

Words near fault-tolerant in the dictionary

  1. fault-found
  2. fault-free
  3. fault-line
  4. fault-lines
  5. fault-prone
  6. fault-tolerant
  7. faultable
  8. faultage
  9. faultages
  10. faulted
  11. faulter

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