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Failure

Failure is defined in ISO/CD 10303-226 as the lack of ability of a component, equipment, sub system, or system to perform its intended function as designed. Failure may be the result of one or many faults.

See also

• Cascading failure
• Single point of failure
• Power outage
• Debugging

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