fault-finding

fault-finding (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of faultfinding.
2. The investigation and location of faults in machinery and equipment.
   • 1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 103:

     Many of the faults reported in all categories should have been cleared by systematic fault-finding. Once a system of fault-finding has been laid down, staff must be made familiar with it and must follow the correct sequence of diagnosis step by step in the way set out in a fault-finding chart.

• faultless, faulty, find fault

• fact-finding
• inspection, troubleshooting

• “fault-finding”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• finding fault