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Revision as of 18:24, 5 June 2009
In engineering, fault tolerance is a characteristic of a system that can have one or more subcomponents fail without the entire system failing. This does not mean that the system has no single point of failure, but that at least some parts can fail and have continued operation; a system might be robust to a component failure, but have no backup for complete physical destruction.