0 to fail to work or operate correctly --
1 a failure to work or operate correctly: --
Shortly before the crash the pilot had reported a malfunction of the aircraft's navigation system.
2 (of a machine, piece of equipment, or organ) to fail to work correctly: --
The equipment malfunctions at temperatures below freezing.
3 if a machine or system malfunctions, it stops working normally: --
4 a situation in which a machine or system stops working normally: --
Deep changes may be necessary if the back-offices are malfunctioning to any significant degree and/or the service is not coming up to acceptable standards or to various user demands.
Thousands of genes can be profiled at the same time, giving insight into an individual's genome, its functions, and, of generally greater interest to the individual, its malfunctions.
Catches from traps that malfunctioned were discarded.
In other cases, the new microsound is beatless and focuses on textures often assembled from microsonic elements, again often culled from computer malfunctions or from the creative misuse of technology.
The use of sensors implied deviation from some nominal condition and in robotised arc welding a change of path could lead to several malfunctions that had to be detected.
Although it provides directions to incorporate malfunctions annunciation for the critical components and assemblies of the system, yet it cannot be used for the diagnosability evaluation of the system.
High information, monitoring and transaction costs, lack of collateral following unenforceable property rights, and moral hazard problems all contribute to absent or malfunctioning credit markets in these economies.
In addition, the malfunctioning robot should be able to broadcast a chemical plume to identify itself and to indicate its position.
