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failure rate
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failure rate [′fāl·yər ‚rāt]
(engineering)
The probability of failure per unit of time of items in operation; sometimes estimated as a ratio of the number of failures to the accumulated operating time for the items.


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The hazard rate or hazard function is the conditional probability that a person leaves employment in a very short time period, given that the person remains employed until that time period.
 
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