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Meanings of power outage in English

Russian
аварии энергосети
Portuguese
blackout
Spanish
apagón electrico
Catalan
apagada elèctrica
Wikidata

Short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area.

аварии энергосети
Portuguese
blecautes

Equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails.

blecautes
Synonyms
Examples for "power failure"
Examples for "power failure"
1
The power failure and its accompanying disasters must have occurred generations ago.
Ringworld
2
A fixture that began with a power failure also ended with one.
The Irish Times
3
A total power failure took out lights, computers, and flight information screens.
Wired
4
Some roof and structural damage, some caravans destroyed, power failure likely.
Reuters
5
New York City's Times Square gets interesting during the July 1977 power failure.
Wired
Usage of power outage in English
1
Ike caused the largest single power outage in Texas, according to state regulators.
Reuters
2
The culprit: a 20-minute power outage at a single Northern Virginia data center.
Wired
3
Security guard tells me power outage of this sort has never happened before.
The South African
4
Maybe whatever caused the power outage has finally begun to calm.
The Kill Order
5
It experienced a plant-wide power outage as Harvey drenched east Texas.
Reuters
6
Mission controllers faked a fire and a power outage to keep them alert.
The Guardian
7
Sept. 1 - Complete power outage shuts production at the refinery.
Reuters
8
Then, one night, there was a power outage at his farm.
Heaven's Queen
9
I wondered briefly how they did it if there was a power outage.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
10
People who, unlike him, enjoyed the thrill of the power outage.
Something about You
11
The power outage occurred on Thursday at Lockport, Illinois, near Chicago.
Reuters
12
A long power outage can cause molten aluminum to solidify inside the smelter.
Reuters
13
The last two deaths, he said, were a direct result of the power outage.
Reuters
14
Your high-value power backup system fails the moment you need it-duringa power outage.
Mysql high availability
15
CFE said that a brush fire between transmission towers had caused the power outage.
Reuters
16
I read it every time we had a power outage.
Beastly