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fail over

verb

fail over

verb
1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.

  • If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second.
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