Failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
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The criteria for failure are heavily dependent on context of use, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. A situation considered to be a failure by one might be considered a success by another, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation.
It may also be difficult or impossible to ascertain whether a situation meets criteria for failure or success due to ambiguous or ill-defined definition of those criteria. Finding useful and effective criteria, or heuristics, to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task.
Failure can be differentially perceived from the viewpoints of the evaluators. A person who is only interested in the final outcome of an activity would consider it to be an Outcome Failure if the core issue has not been resolved or a core need is not met. A failure can also be a process failure whereby although the activity is completed successfully, a person may still feel dissatisfied if the underlying process is perceived to be below expected standard or benchmark.
Loser is a derogatory term for a person who is (according to the standards of the observer) generally unsuccessful.
A commercial failure is a product that does not reach expectations of success.
Most of the items listed below had high expectations, significant financial investments, and/or widespread publicity, but fell far short of success. Due to the subjective nature of "success" and "meeting expectations," there can be disagreement about what constitutes a "major flop."
"Fail" is the name of a popular Internet meme where users superimpose a caption, often the word "fail" or "epic fail," onto photos or short videos depicting unsuccessful events or people falling short of expectations.[1] In July 2003, a contributor to Urban Dictionary wrote that the term, "fail," could be used as an interjection, "when one disapproves of something," citing the example: "You actually bought that? FAIL." This most likely originated as a shortened form of "You fail" or, more fully, "You fail it," the taunting "game over" message in the late 1990s Japanese video game Blazing Star, notorious for its fractured English.[2][3][4] There is an entire Internet site dedicated to "fails" called Fail Blog.[2]
The term "miserable failure" has also been popularized as a result of a widely known "Google bombing," which caused Google searches for the term to turn up the White House biography of George W. Bush.[5]
Failure describes a situation which has failed to meet an expected outcome.
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A failure (fail, phail or flop) is where a certain objective or mission is not completed. If something fails, it can lose. It is the opposite of success.
A commercial failure usually means that a commercial enterprise or company has not met its objectives, or has failed. It may have lost money due to this.
Product failure can be the failure to sell the product, or a problem with the product that may stop it from working after a while, or lead to the person using the product hurting themselves.
People who take tests or examinations will pass the test if they are successful. If they are unsuccessful they "fail" the test.
   | Designing Building Failures - CU People Redirect/Forwarding |
| | On Entreprenurial Failure - The Blue Screen of Death :: A book by Jawwad Farid |
 | Critical spare parts - Spare Parts Management |
| | Great Failures of the Extremely Successful - Tallfellow & Smallfellow Press - Homepage |
| | George W. Bush - Welcome to the White House |
| | YouFail.org - YouFail.org - You fail life and everything |
| | Google Keyword 'Failure' - failure - Google Search |
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