soft error

noun

soft error

noun
1

Business, Computing, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics, Sciences A type of transient error where a signal or datum is momentarily wrong, caused for example by an ionizing particle striking a chip.

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