Equipment Failure (Noun)
Meaning
A cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing due to an equipment failure in the engine.
- A critical equipment failure led to a fire that caused extensive damage to the manufacturing plant.
- The data center went down for several hours due to a equipment failure that took out the backup generators.
- Equipment failure caused the delay of the project as a key machine needed for production broke down unexpectedly.
- An equipment failure on the submarine led to a serious leak and forced the crew to return to shore immediately.