degrade gracefully (English, verb)
expansion: degrade gracefully (third-person singular simple present degrades gracefully, present participle degrading gracefully, simple past and past participle degraded gracefully)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a system: to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not available.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: degrades gracefully
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: degrading gracefully
tags: participle
present
form: degraded gracefully
tags: participle
past
form: degraded gracefully
tags: past