failure

Failure stands for:

• a failure of a system or any part of it
• Short-term cancellation of an appointment, sporting event or competition, counterpart of a cancellation
• In chemistry, the separation of a dissolved substance from a solution, see precipitation
• In finance, the insolvency of counterparties who do not or not fully meet their obligations (see probability of default and amount of default credit )
• Loss (fencing) . Attacking step in epee fencing

in the military:

• Failure (tactic) , breaking out of a siege
• (only used in the plural) the totality of personnel losses - fallen, injured, missing, prisoners - of an armed force, see loss (military)

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Wiktionary: failure  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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