Usually means: Automatic switching to backup system.
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  1. failover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Failover, failover: Wordnik
  3. failover: Wiktionary
  4. failover: Dictionary.com
  5. Failover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. failover: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Failover: Linktionary Networking Glossary
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  6. failover: Encyclopedia

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  1. failover: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (failover)

noun:  (computing) An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup.

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