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malfunction

noun as in breakdown, failure

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"But they can also make all the electronics on a satellite malfunction, knock down power grids and affect weather and communication satellites."

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Airbus had instructed its clients Friday to take "immediate precautionary action" after a technical malfunction on board a JetBlue flight in October exposed that intense solar radiation could corrupt data critical to the flight controls.

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The agency said that a preliminary technical evaluation by Airbus found a computer malfunction may have contributed to that incident.

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Did computer systems in the highly automated wide-body jet somehow malfunction?

During the study, the team uncovered previously unrecognized contributors to disease progression, including widespread inflammation, immune system malfunction, and shifts in how certain immune cells function.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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