outage

English

Etymology

From out +‎ -age, on the model of shortage.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ.tɪd͡ʒ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ.tɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈaʊ.ɾɪd͡ʒ], /ˈaʊ.təd͡ʒ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈæɔ.tɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈæɔ.ɾɪd͡ʒ]
• Rhymes: -aʊtɪdʒ
• Hyphenation: out‧age

Noun

outage (plural outages)

1. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.

   Synonyms: blackout, power cut

   • 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

2. The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.

Derived terms

• power outage
• sun outage

 

Translations

suspension of operation

• Bulgarian: престой (bg) m (prestoj)
• Catalan: pana (ca), apagada (ca)
• Czech: prostoj m; výpadek (cs) m (of elektricity); porucha (cs) f (function broken)
• Dutch: panne (nl) m
• Finnish: katkos
• French: panne (fr), interruption (fr)
• German: Ausfall (de) m, Stromausfall (de) m
• Italian: black-out (it) m, disservizio m, interruzione (it) f
• Lithuanian: prastova f; gedimas m (function broken)
• Polish: awaria (pl) f, przestój m
• Russian: ава́рия (ru) (avárija)
• Spanish: apagón (es)
• Turkish: kesinti (tr)
• Vietnamese: mất điện, cúp điện (vi)

amount lost in storage or transportation

• Bulgarian: утечка f (utečka)
• French: perte de marchandise
• Lithuanian: nubyrėjimas m (of solid), nutekėjimas m, nuotekis m (of liquid)

See also

• blackout
• brownout
• dropout
• power cut

Anagrams

• age out