present participle of words fail someone.

Failing to prepare will cause one to lose or fail

State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success. / Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.

A component in a device, or a point in a network, that, if it were to fail would cause the entire device or network to fail; normally eliminated by adding redundancy.

A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.

(cardiology, pathology) The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.

Alternative form of fail-safe

Alternative form of fail-safe

Alternative form of fail-safe

(computing, countable) An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup.