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Thesaurus: fail-safe

guaranteed not to fail

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  1. adj. guaranteed not to fail
  2. adj. eliminating danger by compensating automatically for a failure or malfunction
  3. n. a mechanism capable of returning to a safe state in case there is a failure or malfunction
  4. j:100 n. a mechanism capable of returning to a safe state in case there is a failure or malfunction s. guaranteed not to fail s. eliminating danger by compensating automatically for a failure or malfunction