fault-tolerant

adjective

fault-tol·​er·​ant ˈfȯlt-ˌtä-lə-rənt 

: relating to or being a computer or program with a self-contained backup system that allows continued operation when major components fail

fault tolerance noun

Examples of fault-tolerant in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Fujitsu researchers, the press release claimed, found that cracking an RSA key would require a fault-tolerant quantum computer with a scale of roughly 10,000 qubits and 2.23 trillion quantum gates, and even then, the computation would require about 104 days. —Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023

The research team noted that their integrated chip was compact and plug-and-play compatible, and that topologically protected entangled photons could serve as qubits in fault-tolerant quantum computers and find use in highly secure quantum communications networks. —IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2022

The fear is that, sometime down the road, a fault-tolerant quantum computer will be used to break existing cryptosystems. —Kazuhiro Gomi, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above