Failover

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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The capability to switch over automatically (typically without human intervention or warning) to a redundant or standby information system upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active system.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

—80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Failovers
possessive: Failover's
pluralpossessive: Failovers'

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