Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails.

According to the safe life principle throughout the life, no component of the structure may fail.

Meanwhile, September has completed the device, but one component fails to work.

And when the mechanical components do fail, they will still need to be replaced.

It was often impossible to see how solid-state electronic components could fail; yet they did.

At 10:30 one morning, a single electronic component failed and collapsed the entire network.

The survivors saw a pattern, guessed that common components were failing.

When a key component fails, the hot spare is switched into operation.

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail."

A dashboard light comes on if any component fails, even for a moment.