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bathtub curve
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n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of
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those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate
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of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the
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system's lifetime, then rising again as it tires out. See also burn-in
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period , infant mortality.
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