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outage
[ ou-tij ]
noun
- an interruption or failure in the supply of power, especially electricity.
- the period during which power is lost:
a two-hour outage on the East Coast.
- a stoppage in the functioning of a machine or mechanism due to a failure in the supply of power or electricity.
- the quantity of goods lost or lacking from a shipment. Compare innage ( def 1 ).
- Aeronautics. the amount of fuel used during a flight. Compare innage ( def 2 ).
outage
/ ˈʊɪ /
noun
- a quantity of goods missing or lost after storage or shipment
- a period of power failure, machine stoppage, etc
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Example Sentences
Local police have suggested the woman, who suffered from a lung condition, died after the ventilator she was using lost power during the outage, according to media reports.
We ask people who spent the day without electricity about what helped them get on with life and what outage essentials they were missing.
It is unclear, especially as many systems fail in electricity supply quite frequently, not only renewables, and outages on this scale happen somewhere in the world around once a year on average.
The risk lay in overloading the system by turning everything on at the same time and triggering another massive outage.
An outage caused by a faulty software or server update, or even user error, can often be resolved in a matter of hours.
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