"fail over" meaning in English

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      "form": "fails over",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "failing over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "failed over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "failed over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "fail over (third-person singular simple present fails over, present participle failing over, simple past and past participle failed over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component."
      ],
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          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "automatically",
          "automatically"
        ],
        [
          "switch",
          "switch"
        ],
        [
          "processing",
          "processing"
        ],
        [
          "fail",
          "fail"
        ],
        [
          "component",
          "component"
        ],
        [
          "critical",
          "critical"
        ],
        [
          "system",
          "system"
        ],
        [
          "live",
          "live"
        ],
        [
          "spare",
          "spare"
        ],
        [
          "backup",
          "backup"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "failover"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fail over"
}

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    {
      "form": "fails over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "failing over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "failed over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "failed over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "failover"
    }
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        {
          "text": "If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component."
      ],
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          "computing",
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        ],
        [
          "automatically",
          "automatically"
        ],
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          "processing",
          "processing"
        ],
        [
          "fail",
          "fail"
        ],
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          "component",
          "component"
        ],
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          "critical",
          "critical"
        ],
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          "system",
          "system"
        ],
        [
          "live",
          "live"
        ],
        [
          "spare",
          "spare"
        ],
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          "backup",
          "backup"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component."
      ],
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        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
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