fail-safe in the PONS Dictionary

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Strict limits are placed on materials and pressures used in pneumatic or hydraulic actuators, and fail-safe systems are required for electronic control circuits.
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The pulse coded safety logic system is a unique and diverse safety logic system, which is inherently fail-safe with built-in self-checking feature.
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As a fail-safe feature they have spring-applied disc brakes that are automatically applied if something goes wrong.
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A pilot always initiates a wave-off by applying full thrust when touching down on an aircraft carrier as a fail-safe measure.
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Equipment used for railroad signalling tends to be expensive because of its specialized nature and fail-safe design.
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Multiple blowout preventers of the same type are frequently provided for redundancy, an important factor in the effectiveness of fail-safe devices.
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Interviews furthermore can provide road maps for researching archives, and can even serve as a fail-safe resource when written documents have been lost or destroyed.
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He explains that the cave is rigged to collapse, because the golden fail-safe key in the urn has been lost.
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Fin brakes are designed to be fail-safe, so that a loss of power will cause them to engage.
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The brake pads lock as part of the fail-safe mechanism when an air lock occurs.
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