Usually means: Reduces functionality to prevent failure.
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  1. fail-soft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. fail-soft: Wiktionary
  3. fail-soft: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. fail-soft: Dictionary.com
  5. fail-soft: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fail-soft)

▸ adjective:  (computing) Able to proceed even after an error condition by selectively skipping parts of the processing.

Similar:
failsoft, asynchronous, optimistic, backgrounded, soft, anti-exploit, fatal, soft-sectored, crisp, soft real-time, more...

Opposite:
fail-hard, fail-safe, robust

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Similar:
failsoft, asynchronous, optimistic, backgrounded, soft, anti-exploit, fatal, soft-sectored, crisp, soft real-time, more...

Opposite:
fail-hard, fail-safe, robust



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