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A measure of the frequency of of a device or system, specifically the average time FAILURE between failures. This measure has been supplanted in the by RATE. 2007 VVSG FAILURE Abbreviated MTBF.
Also known asMTBF · mean time to failure · MTTF
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A measure of the frequency of of a device or system, specifically the average time FAILURE between failures. This measure has been supplanted in the by RATE. 2007 VVSG FAILURE Abbreviated MTBF.
Electronic Voting Glossary · 2024
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Election Security Glossary. (2026). Mean Time Between Failures. In Election Security Glossary. Retrieved August 17, 2026, from https://electionsecurityglossary.com/glossary/mean-time-between-failures
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