"instrument failure" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a malfunction or breakdown of equipment or tools. Here is an example of how it could be used in a sentence: "The team had to delay the experiment due to instrument failure, causing frustration and disappointment among the researchers."
Clinical investigations describe a higher risk of instrument failure in short segment instrumentation with increased preoperative kyphotic deformity in osteoporotic patients [ 21].
The report did not determine the cause of the instrument failure on Mr. Carnahan's Cessna 335, a twin-engine plane.
He is not in the café; therefore he is in the museum," and of the latter, "Previous accidents of this sort were caused by instrument failure; therefore this accident was caused by instrument failure".
I cannot speculate why the pilot climbed the aircraft but it could have been due to confusion caused by the turbulence and sudden instrument failure.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch team at Farnborough will be looking for signs of engine or instrument failure in the wreckage of the Hawker Hunter.
Instrument failure caused by excessive torsional stress can be controlled by creating a manual or mechanical glide path.
In arthroscopic procedures, instrument failures are rare complications with low incidences.
In addition, preparation time, changes of working length, and instrument failures were recorded.
Note that the trajectory error after two or three years of ice drift cannot be properly assessed because buoys hardly survive more than one year due to summer ice melt and instrument failures.
As in all eddy covariance studies, obtaining annual sums of urban CO2 exchange requires imputation of data gaps due to low turbulence and non-stationary conditions, adverse weather, and instrument failures.
I think it would just be tragic if what is now a 40-year record of land-use change and climate change were to end with Landsat 8. We just decided in December to decommission Landsat 5 because of too many instrument failures.
