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malfunction

nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˌmælˈfʌŋk.ʃən//

Faulty functioning.

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  1. 1

    Faulty functioning.

    This weekend, as videos of robotaxi malfunctions began appearing on social media, opponents say they are seeing their fears realized.

    A former OceanGate scientific director said the Titan submersible suffered a malfunction six days before imploding in June 2023, killing all five people on board.

  2. 2

    Failure to function.

Étymologie

From mal- (“bad, incorrect”) + function.

verbe

  1. 1

    To function improperly.

    She told him the machine was poorly built, but they both knew that she was the one who had malfunctioned.

    Due to a communications error, according to gaming officials, the slot machine malfunctioned and didn’t notify Taylor or casino personnel that he was a winner.

    The group has started collecting reports of malfunctioning, crashing, or dangerous self-driving cars on its website.

    A 39-year-old British woman was killed when a malfunctioning ottoman bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, a coroner’s report said.

  2. 2

    To fail to function.

Formes

pluriel
malfunctions
passé
malfunctioned
participe passé
malfunctioned
participe présent
malfunctioning
3ᵉ personne du singulier
malfunctions
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).