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infant mortality
(encz) | infant mortality,kojenecká úmrtnost |
infant mortality
(wn) | infant mortality
n 1: the death rate during the first year of life [syn: {infant
deathrate}, infant mortality, infant mortality rate] |
infant mortality
(foldoc) | infant mortality
It is common lore among hackers (and in the
electronics industry at large) that the chances of sudden
hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time
since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at
which enough mechanical wear in I/O devices and
thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the
machine to start going senile). Up to half of all chip and
wire failures happen within a new system's first few weeks;
such failures are often referred to as "infant mortality"
problems (or, occasionally, as "sudden infant death
syndrome").
See bathtub curve, burn-in period.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-20)
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infant mortality
(jargon) | infant mortality
n.
It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large;
this term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden hardware
failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that
is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical wear in I/
O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the
machine to start going senile). Up to half of all chip and wire failures
happen within a new system's first few weeks; such failures are often
referred to as infant mortality problems (or, occasionally, as sudden
infant death syndrome). See bathtub curve, burn-in period.
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