0 past simple and past participle of malfunction
1 to fail to work or operate correctly
Later the oil stove and heater in the hut malfunctioned for a time.
Trials in which the voice key malfunctioned or the computer crashed were considered lost trials and were not counted as errors.
Data (light trap and corresponding human bait catch) for nights when either one or more light traps malfunctioned were excluded from the analysis.
Catches from traps that malfunctioned were discarded.
The system malfunctioned on 34 occasions in 1985, 32 in 1986 and 40 in 1987.
Before he went back to prison, his tag malfunctioned 15 times.
The system malfunctioned on 22 occasions in 1988.
He discovered a number of cases where machines had malfunctioned resulting in tampering with mail.
