The extent to which a functional unit, such as an automatic data processing, communications, computer, information, or control system, will continue to meet specified performance requirements when one or more of its components are failing or have failed. Synonym resilience. See also automatic data processing system, catastrophic degradation, communications system, component, computer system, control system, endurability, failure, functional unit, graceful degradation, information system, performance requirement, specify.
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Weik, M.H. (2000). fault tolerance. In: Computer Science and Communications Dictionary. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0613-6_6824
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