watchdog timer

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|computer hardware}} An [[electronic]] or [[software]] [[timer]] used to [[detect]] and [[recover]] from [[computer]] [[malfunction]]s by generating a [[timeout]] [[signal]] if it is not periodically reset by the system.

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