"failure rate" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: failure rates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} failure rate (plural failure rates)
  1. (sciences, engineering) The frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour. Wikipedia link: failure rate Categories (topical): Engineering, Sciences Translations (frequency): poruchovost [feminine] (Czech), vikatiheys (Finnish), felprocent [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-failure_rate-en-noun-S2-2lFk~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

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