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Meanings of malfunction in English

Portuguese
enguiçar

Fail to function or function improperly.

enguiçar

Failure of a parachuting device.

Usage of malfunction in English
1
Patients were followed for 6 months; therapy duration and malfunction were recorded.
Pubmed
2
Centrifuge parts that worked for a year but then began to malfunction.
The increment: a novel
3
Sixty-three percent suffered a shunt malfunction within 5 years of ASD implantation.
Pubmed
4
Their malfunction has been linked to a number of diseases and disorders.
Wired
5
Since Mission Control could hear their conversations, Scott fabricated a seatbelt malfunction.
Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
6
There was no hemolysis, pump thrombosis or pump malfunction through 1 year.
Pubmed
7
It made an alarming noise of malfunction and the LED remained red.
Internecine
8
Meier added that regular drones could also be dangerous if they malfunction.
Reuters
9
This isn't the first time the bridge has suffered an embarrassing malfunction.
News.com.au
10
WE'VE ALL had days of wardrobe malfunction, which usually go blessedly unrecorded.
The Irish Times
11
Unfortunately, in vivo BUA can not be adjusted when real malfunction occurs.
Pubmed
12
No unusual equipment warning indications had been observed prior to the malfunction.
Pubmed
13
A system malfunction in French Polynesia has triggered a false tsunami alert.
Radio NZ
14
But as luck would have it, the commode suffered a low-airflow malfunction.
Riding rockets
15
Fifty percent of the shunt complications were specifically related to ASD malfunction.
Pubmed
16
If you had yanked the trunk open-barringa malfunction-you'dhave been incinerated.
The bricklayer
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Translations for malfunction
Portuguese
enguiçar
Malfunction through the time
Malfunction across language varieties
Australia
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common
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