Well, lately for some strange reason their Soyuz series always seems to have a temporary malfunction whenever they pass over one certain spot on the globe.
The camera would continue to operate, relaying back no malfunction signals, but it would be sending a picture of the ceiling.
Anyone who had any sort of trouble is blaming it on the virus rather than more common causes like hardware malfunction and operator error.
We watch fuel tanks leak, backup computers go bad, life support systems malfunction and suffer through a complete range of incom- prehensible defects in the multi-billion dollar space program.
Doctors and nurses were unaware of anymalfunction because all systems appeared to operating correctly.
The very organ which is designed specifically to furnish information on spatial orientation may malfunction in man while he is in flight.
On the other extreme are the complex primates which respond rapidly, but whose multiplicity of organs and correlative mechanisms are susceptible to malfunction and disorganization.
On the other extreme are the complex primates which respond rapidly, but whose multiplicity of organs and correlative mechanisms make the occurrence of malfunction and disorganization probable, but not certain.
It could be a malfunction of the sensors, but who the hell knows.
There's only a problem if it's a malfunction of the motors, and they don't report a problem.
It was probably a malfunction of the indicator lights.
They decided to make a few more tests, on their own time, but with radiation-detection equipment so designed that the possibility of malfunction would be almost nil.
Again the instruments were checked but, as before, no malfunctionwas found.
All indications pointed to equipment malfunctionas the most probable explanation.
It was tentatively concluded, the scientist continued, that the abnormally high radiation readings were "officially" due to some freakish equipmentmalfunction and that the objects sighted visually were birds or airplanes.
During the original sightings the equipment- malfunction factor could not be definitely established or refuted because certain critical data had not been measured.
The targets could be caused by a malfunction in the radar, they thought, so a technician was called in --the set was in perfect working order.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "malfunction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
