What is "malfunctioning"

Usage examples of "malfunctioning".

Hrrto felt some respect for the colony leader's ability to retain what sounded to him like the roars and sputtering of malfunctioning motors.

We'll make sure they see us - and then they don't - and if we're lucky it'll look like someone in transit with a malfunctioning FTL drive, blipping in and out of normal space.

Engineers, in her experience, were never satisfied to replace a malfunctioning part: they always wanted to redesign it.

But knowing it was probably the Drug Enforcement Arm—she played along with the polite fiction that the visual circuit on their end was malfunctioning, and let Alex repeat the details of the deal he had cut, as she offered only a close-up of the little vase.

She was disappointed that the forward screen was malfunctioning, because then she did not know exactly when the shuttle left its bay.

A fresh ingress through the malfunctioning gate would be the best thing we could hope for.

Nor will it be liable to the same kinds of failures that the malfunctioning gate is having.

The malfunctioning gate itself was disconnected from its power source, only visible to Rhiow as the thinnest ghost oval traced in the air, like a structure woven of smoke.

Illingworth's home universe, or not finding it, may have to do with the timeslide still being powered out of the malfunctioning gate's power source.

She paced around to the other side of the timeslide, checked her name in passing, then leapt into the circle and looked thoughtfully at the other sets of coordinates stacked up in the routines to be examined: mostly derived from microtransits of the malfunctioning gate.

This was one of the “transfer” gates which would be taking some of the pressure off the London complex while the malfunctioning gate structure was completely offline.

Illingworth’s home universe, or not finding it, may have to do with the timeslide still being powered out of the malfunctioning gate’s power source.

Pure fury powered Twelve-T’s malfunctioning body into a final act of obedience.

How he had turned up so fast, even with a malfunctioning gate, wasn’t hard to imagine: an Area Advisory was not limited to public transit in the performance of his duties.

Meanwhile, I’ll go Downside myself later on and check the top-level spell emplacement, just to make sure one of the other gate structures isn’t interfering with the malfunctioning one.