Definition of 'fail-safe'. Word Frequency. fail-safe also failsafe. adjective. Something that is fail-safe is designed or made in such a way that nothing dangerous can happen if a part of it goes wrong. The camera has a built-in failsafe device which prevents it from working if the right signals aren't received.
A cuboid is a 3D shape. Cuboids have six faces, which form a convex polyhedron. Simply speaking, cuboids are made from 6 rectangles, which are placed at right angles. A cuboid that uses all square faces is a cube; if the faces are rectangles, other than squares, it looks like a shoe box. Properties of a Cuboid are:
A spheroid, or ellipsoid of revolution, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters. If the ellipse is rotated about its major axis, the result is a prolate (elongated) spheroid, shaped like an American football or rugby ball. If the ellipse is rotated about its minor axis, the result is an oblate (flattened) spheroid, shaped like a lentil.