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malfunctionmal‧func‧tion /mælˈfʌŋkʃən/ noun [countable]   - Someone at the plant has to be ready to deal with equipment malfunctions at any time.
- If you don't, you may find your society malfunctions or that you're unable to progress.
- More importantly, the display highlights any system or area experiencing abnormal conditions, whether plant malfunction or unacceptable ambience levels.
- No evidence of any disconnection or malfunction of the aileron system prior to ground impact was found.
- Other shortages or malfunctions are impending that can lead to acute crises.
- There have been equipment malfunctions and demanding superstars.
- There is a comprehensive range of information before them and their practised eye quickly detects any malfunction.
- This heat can cause certain circuit-board components to malfunction or fail altogether.
- We should not forget our animal origins or our brain's capacity to malfunction or the hidden potential of the unconscious mind.
to stop working► something goes wrong if something goes wrong with a machine, it stops working normally - use this especially about complicated equipment, when you do not know what the problem is: · Who'll fix my computer if something goes wrong?something goes wrong with: · Occasionally something went wrong with the projector and the movie was canceled.· Something's gone wrong with my washing machine. ► break down if a car, bus, train, or large machine breaks down , it stops working completely: · She was late for the meeting because her car broke down.· The elevators in this building are always breaking down. ► crash if a computer crashes , it suddenly stops working, and information is often lost because of this: · I installed the new program and my computer crashed.· Hundreds of hospital records were wiped out when the network crashed. ► cut out if an engine cuts out , it suddenly stops working: · Every time Mark slowed down the engine cut out.· I started to go up the hill and the engine just cut out on me. ► fail especially written if a part of a machine or of a piece of electrical equipment fails , it stops working: · The driver of the car claims that his brakes failed and he was unable to stop.· In the last ten minutes of the game, one of the television cameras failed.· One of the engines failed at 30,000 feet. ► malfunction formal to stop working properly: · This is a sign that the computer's hard disk is malfunctioning.· Both satellites entered orbit but quickly malfunctioned. ► pack up British informal if a machine packs up , it stops working, especially because it is old: · When this record player packs up, I'll buy a CD player.· They won't know what to do if a pipe bursts or if the heater packs up. a fault in the way a machine or part of someone’s body works:  a malfunction in one of the enginesmalfunction of a malfunction of the immune system an equipment malfunction—malfunction verb [intransitive]: A warning light seems to have malfunctioned. |