fail-deadly
English
adj
Definitions
- (military) In nuclear weapons strategy: encouraging deterrence by guaranteeing an immediate, automatic, and overwhelming response to an attack, even if the command-and-control infrastructure has been damaged by the enemy's first strike.
Etymology
Compound from English fail + English deadly.
Origin
English
deadly
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dead English
- deadlihood English
- deadliness English
- deadly English
- fail English
- failable English
- failback English
- failcascade English
- failer English
- failest English
- faileth English
- failover English
- failproof English
- failsoft English
- failtastic English
- nondeadly English
- unfailable English
- dedly Middle English
- failen Middle English
- feli Swahili