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Learn the meaning of fail-safe as an adjective and a noun, with synonyms, examples, and word history. Find out how fail-safe is used in different contexts, such as engineering, aviation, and grammar.
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In engineering, a fail-safe is a design feature or practice that, in the event of a failure of the design feature, inherently responds in a way that will cause minimal or no harm to other equipment, to the environment or to people.
Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The film follows a crisis caused by a critical error that sends a group of U.S. bombers to destroy Moscow, and the ensuing attempts to stop the bomber group before it can deploy a nuclear first strike.
Learn the meaning of fail-safe, an adjective that describes something very unlikely to fail or designed to avoid a dangerous situation. See how to use it in sentences and find synonyms, antonyms and translations in different languages.
Fail-safe means very unlikely to fail or designed to avoid a dangerous situation if one part does not work. Learn more about the meaning, usage and synonyms of fail-safe with examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Fail-safe definition: pertaining to or noting a mechanism built into a system, as in an early warning system or a nuclear reactor, for insuring safety should the system fail to operate properly.. See examples of FAIL-SAFE used in a sentence.
Fail Safe is a 2000 televised broadcast play, based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS, starred George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel, and Noah Wyle, and was one of the few live dramas on American television since its Golden Age in the 1950s and 1960s.
