Fail-safe

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fail-safe
       adj 1: guaranteed not to fail; "a fail-safe recipe for cheese
              souffle"
       2: eliminating danger by compensating automatically for a
          failure or malfunction; "a fail-safe device in a nuclear
          weapon to deactivate it automatically in the event of


          accident"