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latent failure

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latent failure [‚lāt·ənt ′fāl·yər]
(navigation)
An undetected degradation in the operation of a navigational aid.


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ceramic chip capacitors) or solder joints (such as BGA balls) that may not be caught during product testing, but manifest themselves as latent failures in the field.
95 Patankar (aviation science, Saint Louis University) looks at moral and ethical attitudes underlying the types of decisions that perpetuate many of the latent failures in safety-critical systems.
The result is either immediate damage, or catastrophic failure of the device, but most often results as a latent failure that ultimately causes the device to fail.
 
 
 
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