Usually means: Safety mechanism preventing catastrophic failure.
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  1. Failsafe, failsafe: Wordnik
  2. failsafe: Wiktionary
  3. failsafe: Dictionary.com
  4. failsafe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  5. Failsafe (UK band), Failsafe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. failsafe: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  7. failsafe: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Failsafe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Failsafe: Medical dictionary

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  1. FAILSAFE: Acronym Finder

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  1. Failsafe: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Failsafe)

adjective:  Alternative form of fail-safe [That does not cause undue damage in the event of failure.]
noun:  Alternative form of fail-safe [A device, mechanism or measure designed to make something fail-safe.]
verb:  Alternative form of fail-safe [To compensate automatically, in the event of a failure.]

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