fallo

Fallo is a comune and town in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy
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n. error, mistake, fault, flaw, defect, foul, fail; phallus, penis

v. fail, make a mistake, err; fail to strike, miss; fail to sprout (of a seed)

v. do, act; make, perform; build, construct; fashion; produce

n. shortcoming; failure; verdict, judgement; ruling, decision; order; rule

v. ruff, trump; pronounce, proclaim; fail; miss; misfire

v. fail, be unsuccessful; go bankrupt, become insolvent; expire, come to an end

V
deceive; slip by; disappoint; be mistaken| beguile| drive away; fail; cheat

= breakdown, failing, failure, fault, flaw, malfunction, pitfall, slip, dysfunction, miss, crash.
Nota: Utilizado en informática para indicar que un ordenador o un programa deja de funcionar inesperadamente.
Ex: Moreover, it would have been subject to frequent breakdown, for at that time and long after complexity and unreliability were synonymous.
Ex: No supervisor should be a tiresome nag, but the achievements and failings of a persons's performance deserves mention in a constructive way at timely, regular intervals.
Ex: DBMS systems aim to cope with system failure and generate restart procedures.
Ex: Documents and information can be lost forever by faults in inputting.
Ex: The author lists 10 advantages of procuring the journals through STC, but counterbalances these by listing 14 flaws in the corporation's organisation.
Ex: All users are charged direct search costs plus an overhead for each request to allow for indirect costs (labour, hardware, software, training, system malfunction).
Ex: Nevertheless, it is worth drawing a comparison between them so that menu-based information retrieval systems might avoid some of the pitfalls of traditional classification.
Ex: Put a set of premises into such a device and turn the crank, and it will readily pass out conclusion after conclusion with no more slips that would be expected of a keyboard adding machine.
Ex: Dysfunctions in performance were chiefly attributable to user failure to locate books (bad signposting and disappearance of stock through theft).
Ex: But the costs that I've seen so far aren't worth it for what it gets for our patrons, that is, the number of misses we can afford compared to the costs of making sure people don't miss.
Ex: In addition, programmers may not always anticipate all the mistakes which can be made, and so crashes occur anyway, though under more limited circumstances.
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* a prueba de fallos = fail-safe.
* arreglar un fallo = fix + fault.
* detectar un fallo = detect + fault.
* fallo cardíaco = heart attack, heart failure.
* fallo mecánico = machine failure.
* sin fallos = flawlessly.
* tener fallos = be flawed.

= fail, falter, misfire, derail, crash, backfire, come + unstuck.
Ex: This article suggests the steps that libraries might take during periods of instability to reduce their chances of being injured by a vendor that fails.
Ex: The project faltered because the data became increasingly difficult to input and manipulate.
Ex: While project ALBIS was seen as an exercise in networking that misfired it did produce some positive results = Aunque se consideraba que el proyecto ALBIS fue un intento de cooperación en red que fracasó, no obstante produjo algunos resultados positivos.
Ex: When organizational communication works well, every ofther facet of management is enhanced; if it derails, other aspects of directing falter as well = Cuando la comunicación dentro de una organización funciona bien, las demás facetas de la gestión mejoran; no obstante, si falla, los otros aspectos de la dirección flaquean también.
Ex: Our computer crashed, the motherboard died, taking along with her the hard drive.
Ex: While this direct contact can backfire if the person is not knowledgeable about the product, it is also a golden opportunity to respond directly to customer questions and unique needs.
Ex: Bright people will always manage towork out the technology but it is the higher-level issues and processes that usually cause a project to come unstuck.
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* no falla = reliable.
* sin fallar = without fail.