equipment failure

1. 1.

   a cessation of normal operation

   “there was a power breakdown”

   Synonymsbreakdown

   Broaderfailure

   Narrowerbrake failureengine failuremisfireoutagepower outagefault

Questions about equipment failure

What does equipment failure mean?

equipment failure means "a cessation of normal operation".

What is another word for equipment failure?

Close synonyms include breakdown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is equipment failure a common word?

equipment failure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.