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📖What it means
Work that did not achieve what it set out to. A failure is INFORMATION — it names what is missing — and a check that could not run is recorded as unauditable rather than as a failure, because the two mean different things.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Refusal
A failure went wrong; a refusal is a deliberate 'no'.
Not: Defect
A failure is an outcome; a defect is a fault in the thing itself.
Not: Unauditable
A failure ran and fell short; an unauditable check never produced a result at all.
🗣️Also called
did not workunsuccessful