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time fault

time fault noun: a penalty given in which a rider does not complete the course in the time allowed that is set by the course designer.

Noun

time fault (plural time faults)

  1. A penalty given in which a rider does not complete the course in the time allowed that is set by the course designer.
    • For instance, a refusal was three points, but as it generally took the rider precious seconds to get his horse over the refused fence, a time fault of four points could be expected.2001, Laura Moore, Ride a Dark Horse, page 286
    • If the rider is over the time allowed he or she is penalized 1⁄4 time fault for every second over the limit.2010, Bradley Berner, Blood on the Irons
  2. A fault in the timing of an automated system.
    • Finally, the bottom window of the figure displays the time fault estimation results.2007, Hong-Yue Zhang, Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, page 628
    • There are significant numbers of works addressing discrete time fault detection problems using Kalman filter techniques [40, 41, 42]. Similar to the multi-objective design problem of continuous time fault detection, robustness in discrete time fault detection is also a very important issue but...2013, Magdi S. Mahmoud, Yuanqing Xia, Analysis and Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Control Systems, page ix

Examples of time fault in a sentence

  • If I went over by a tenth of a second, I got a time fault and some other horse would be the last qualifier for the Grand Prix.2021, James Patterson, The Horsewoman:
  • There are significant numbers of works addressing discrete time fault detection problems using Kalman filter techniques [40, 41, 42].2013, Magdi S. Mahmoud, Yuanqing Xia, Analysis and Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Control Systems, page ix:
  • In closed-loop DES, timed fault isolation is the determination of time fault symptoms based on observed and modeled timed system outputs.2015, Stefan Schneider, Automatic Modeling and Fault Diagnosis of Timed Concurrent Discrete Event Systems:

Forms of time fault

pluraltime faults

Questions about time fault

What does time fault mean?
Time fault means a penalty given in which a rider does not complete the course in the time allowed that is set by the course designer.
How do you use time fault in a sentence?
If I went over by a tenth of a second, I got a time fault and some other horse would be the last qualifier for the Grand Prix.
What part of speech is time fault?
Time fault is a noun.
What is the plural of time fault?
The plural of time fault is time faults.

Words near time fault in the dictionary

  1. time exposure
  2. time exposures
  3. time factor
  4. time factors
  5. time famine
  6. time fault
  7. time faults
  8. time first
  9. time flies
  10. time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
  11. time flies when you're having fun

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