fail-safe 的 3 个定义
- Electronics. 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.
- equipped with a secondary system that insures continued operation even if the primary system fails.
- of, relating to, or designating a system of coded military controls in which bombers dispatched to a prearranged point as part of a standard operating procedure cannot advance farther without direct orders from a designated authority and cannot have the nuclear warheads they carry armed until they have passed their prearranged point.
- guaranteed to work; totally reliable: a fail-safe recipe for a cheese soufflé.
- the point beyond which the bombers cannot go without specific instruction; the fail-safe point.
- something designed to work or function automatically to prevent breakdown of a mechanism, system, or the like.
fail-safed, fail-saf·ing.
- to make fail-safe.
fail-safe 近义词
guaranteed not to fail
更多fail-safe例句
- The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
- And it must make sure that the platform of debate where we can freely exchange ideas is safe and sound.
- They called for peace, reconciliation, and the safe return of Father Gregorio.
- Their leader, Njie, still going by “Dave” during the operation, would stay a safe distance away until the State House was secure.
- Diets not only fail to make us thinner, they also fail to make us healthier in the long term.
- A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.
- The governor of the fortress was provided with a safe residence in Egypt, and an annual pension of 75,000 piasters.
- Could this be the safe old house in which childish days had passed, in which all around were always friendly and familiar faces?
- It would make everyone careful, of course, but I fail to see any grievance in that.
- The truth is, it is not safe to trot down such mountains and hardly to ride down them at all.