power failure in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for power failure in the English»French Dictionary

failure [Brit ˈfeɪljə, Am ˈfeɪljər] N

I.power [Brit ˈpaʊə, Am ˈpaʊ(ə)r] N

II.power [Brit ˈpaʊə, Am ˈpaʊ(ə)r] VB trans

See also nuclear-powered

power failure in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for power failure in the English»French Dictionary

I.power [ˈpaʊəʳ, Am ˈpaʊɚ] N

II.power [ˈpaʊəʳ, Am ˈpaʊɚ] VB intr (move)

III.power [ˈpaʊəʳ, Am ˈpaʊɚ] VB trans

failure [ˈfeɪljəʳ, Am ˈfeɪljɚ] N

American English

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Systems may be configured to reboot automatically after a power failure, or a fatal system error or kernel panic.
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A power failure interrupted the opening ceremony, and later on, police raided the downstairs ballroom, with sirens blazing and a number of arrests made.
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But for some reason a power failure in the building made that hard drive collapse too.
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This makes it possible for an interruption (like a power failure or system crash) between writes to leave data structures in an invalid intermediate state.
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The power failure also caused a loss of attitude control, which led to an uncontrolled tumble through space.
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The reactor has a back-up cooling system to prevent meltdown of the core in case of a power failure.
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This has the side effect of reducing the requirement of file system checking after a crash or power failure.
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Often these do not send data serially to the computer but instead use the handshaking control lines to indicate low battery, power failure, or other conditions.
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