Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage.
- noun A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electricity, the failure of an arc-lamp, in a series arc-circuit, to start when current is sent into the circuit.
- noun A charge made by the State of Maryland for the labor of handling tobacco inspected for export.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A temporary
suspension ofoperation , especially ofelectrical power supply - noun The amount of something
lost instorage ortransportation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers)
- noun the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Keepign servers up during a two+ hour outage is another.
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Keepign servers up during a two+ hour outage is another.
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I guarantee you that the SRO and the plant management and the NRC and the BPA think a fire that causes an outage is both harm and foul.
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If one has their Blackberry blessed, and soon thereafter curses it due to a service outage, is the blessing still valid?
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Site down eh … look fopward to the changes – any idea how long the outage is going to be?
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After dinner we went to the library in case we still had no power (when you live in the country the absolute pitch black of a nighttime power outage is a little disconcerting with small, squirrely, active children) and then came home to lights and Cheerio Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Lights Out! The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And Men…Cheerio Chocolate Chip Cookies Laura 2008
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After dinner we went to the library in case we still had no power (when you live in the country the absolute pitch black of a nighttime power outage is a little disconcerting with small, squirrely, active children) and then came home to lights and Cheerio Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Archive 2008-03-01 Laura 2008
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With about two-thirds of the season complete, it's a good time to look at the overall numbers to see if the outage is just a one-year blip or perhaps the beginning of a trend.
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Collateral effects of a longer-term outage [such as would almost certainly result from a massive space weather event] would likely include, for example, disruption of the transportation, communication, banking, and finance systems, and government services; the breakdown of the distribution of potable water owing to pump failure and the loss of perishable foods and medications because of lack of refrigeration.
The Solar 'Katrina' Storm That Could Take Our Power Grid Out For Years 2010
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I know this outage is probably bugging you even more than it is all of us, so I just want to tell you what a great web site you have.
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