EQUIPMENT FAILURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equipment failure mean? 

• EQUIPMENT FAILURE (noun)
  The noun EQUIPMENT FAILURE has 1 sense:

1. a cessation of normal operation

  Familiarity information: EQUIPMENT FAILURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUIPMENT FAILURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cessation of normal operation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

breakdown; equipment failure

Context example:

there was a power breakdown

Hypernyms ("equipment failure" is a kind of...):

failure (an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equipment failure"):

brake failure (brakes fail to stop a vehicle)

engine failure (engine does not run)

dud; misfire (an explosion that fails to occur)

outage (a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers))

power failure; power outage (equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails)

fault ((electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.))