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shut-down [Cf. shut v. 13.] 1. a. A shutting down; the closing for a time of a factory, etc. Also attrib. The sense in quot. 1857 is uncertain.
1857Knickerbocker XLIX. 35 ‘I'll be just exactly shot if you don't!’ he added with a patent diabolical shut⁓down. 1884Boston Jrnl. 16 Oct. 7 The Acushnet paper⁓mill at New Bedford had started up after a shut-down of two months. 1888Pall Mall Gaz. 8 May 12/1 The shut-down movement has thus far been successful, but every advance in prices induces the opening of new wells. 1889Engineering 11 Oct. 434/3 There has really been a ‘shut down’ of a large number of [oil-]wells, to check a wasteful over-production. 1901Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 29/1 In the old days when we had a grievance we could talk it over with the boss; but today if there is a shut-down nobody knows anything about it except that it has been ordered from headquarters in New York. 1931Economist 15 Aug. 308/2 The Ford shutdown will restrict August production. 1959News Chron. 2 July 4/3 What do you propose..to prevent a shutdown of the national papers? 1967N.Y. Times (Internat. Ed) 11 Feb. 2/2 Classes resumed quietly at Madrid University today after a 10-day shutdown because of campus battles between students and the police. 1972M. Jones Life on Dole vi. 51 The Dowlais shut-down had several consequences. It took away the one industrial enterprise that kept going all through the week. b. The cessation of broadcasting for the day on any particular channel or station; the time at which this occurs.
1959Listener 19 Mar. 499/1 The peak viewing-hours from 7.0 p.m. to shut-down. 1973Times 15 Dec. 2/7 (heading) TV staggers shutdown. 2. a. The cessation of operation of a machine, device, or installation, esp. as a result of a fault.
1911J. F. C. Snell Power House Design x. 352 The..security against a shut-down arising from the duplicate sets of bus bars. 1916Standard. Rules Amer. Inst. Electr. Engin. 35 This method consists in the measurement of the temperature of windings by their increase in resistance, corrected to the instant of shut-down when necessary. 1936Discovery Apr. 113/2 In the event of a shut-down of the power unit, an alternative supply is available from the storage battery. 1953[see input v. 3]. 1971New Scientist 7 Jan. 19/1 An abrupt shutdown is a very different affair from the computer operator pushing the computer ‘off’ buttons. 1976M. Machlin Pipeline liv. 542 The breakdown at Pump Station One and Three..resulted in an automatic shutdown of the entire pipeline. b. Physics. The stopping of the chain reaction in a nuclear reactor when the fuel assembly is made subcritical.
1945H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy for Military Purposes 1940–45 vii. 71 A shut-down for servicing could be effected. 1951Nucleonics Jan. 5/1 There are two sets..of emergency shut-down rods. 1963B. Fozard Instrumentation Nuclear Reactors xiii. 162 The delay due to xenon poisoning in restarting after a shut down cannot be reduced or eliminated. 1978N. L. Frankin in Foley & Van Buren Nuclear or Not? 120 [Boron steel control rods] drop down into the core ensuring a rapid shutdown. |