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fail-safe

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Adjective

eliminating danger by compensating automatically for a failure or malfunction
- a fail-safe device in a nuclear weapon to deactivate it automatically in the event of accident

guaranteed not to fail
- a fail-safe recipe for cheese souffle

Noun

a mechanism capable of returning to a safe state in case there is a failure or malfunction

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