that final period, if any, in the life of an item during which the instantaneous failure intensity for a repaired item or the instantaneous failure rate for a non-repaired item is considerably higher than that of the preceding period Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=191-10-10
that final period, if any, in the life of an item during which the instantaneous failure intensity for a repaired item or the instantaneous failure rate for a non-repaired item is considerably higher than that of the preceding period