OFFLINE Definition & Meaning

offline

or off-line, off line

[ awf-lahyn, of- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Computers. operating independently of, or disconnected from, an associated computer.
Radio. (of a network) not supplying affiliated stations with programming but allowing each station to program its own shows, usually within a specific format.
Television. of or relating to the preliminary planning and editing of a videotaped program.
located in or serving a place not on a regular route of a railroad, bus, or air carrier:
an offline ticket office.

adverb

in or to a more private place:
We should take this discussion offline.

offline

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adjective

of, relating to, or concerned with a part of a computer system not connected to the central processing unit but controlled by a computer storage device See online
disconnected from a computer; switched off
extra to or not involving a continuous sequence of operations, such as a production line
radio television (of processes, such as editing) not carried out on the actual transmission medium

adverb

while not connected to a computer or the internet

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of offline¹

First recorded in 1925–30

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"When a big company detects that the frequency is moving out of their tolerance, they can go offline to protect their equipment," said Prof Hannah Christensen at the University of Oxford.

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Combined-cycle gas plants also played a significant part in repowering the grid, but four nuclear power reactors at Almaraz, Ascó and and Vandellós were automatically shut down by the outage, and three others were already offline anyway.

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"As part of our proactive management of the incident, we took a decision to take some of our systems temporarily offline," a spokesperson said.

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They might also have taken these offline to stop the hackers from spreading their malicious software into those previously unaffected areas.

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It might also be the case that the company is taking all non-business critical services offline to help deal with the hack.

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