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outage, n. orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈaʊtɪdʒ|
[f. out adv. + -age.]
A period or state in which (esp. elecrical) apparatus is not operating as a result of disconnection or failure; spec. a power cut.
1903Electr. World & Engin. 18 Apr. 653/1 The lamp hours were 54,187; percentage of lamp outage, 6–10; globes broken, 23. 1951Engineering 5 Jan. 28/2 Outages will occur for about 50 per cent. of the flashovers so that trouble due to lightning can be expected once per annum per 500 miles. 1955Tweed (Ontario) News 14 Apr. 10/6 Defective lamps will be replaced on Friday of each week. To report outage phone 207 before Friday each week. 1958J. G. Brown Hydro-Electric Engin. Pract. III. vi. 118 The outage which is to be expected with hydro plant is less than with steam turbo-generators. 1963K. Neville in D. Knight 100 Yrs. Sci. Fiction (1969) 73 There's an outage in the Silver Lake Area. The brakes on a bus failed and took out an overhead section. 1974Indian Express 26 Dec. 1/7 An inspection of the pipelines in all the reactors in America had been ordered... It had been decided that the first unit would have an outage for refuelling from January 13. 1976Washington Post 19 Apr. A8/3 The outages were caused by overheating of the fuses that sit atop the power lines' poles. 1976Cody (Wyoming) Enterprise 23 June 16/7 Mr. Royale has lived in Wapiti Valley since 1921, has had electric power since 1947, and remarked that this was the longest power outage he could remember. |