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outage Definition

☆ out·age (o̵ut′ij)

noun

  1. an interruption or suspension
  2. a temporary loss of electric power

Etymology: out + -age

outage Synonyms

outage

n.

interruption of service, blackout, dim-out, brownout; failure of electrical service, electrical failure, failure of gas, interruption of utilities; see also interruption.

outage Usage Examples

Converse of subject

  • affect: At least four Internet service providers are being affected by the outage.

Converse of object

  • suffer: I'll let my hosts explain: As you are probably aware, we suffered a serious outage of all services today.
  • cause: He says investigators do not yet know what caused the first outage.
  • experience: During the next three years more and more areas of the world will experience these outages and nobody will be able to explain why.
  • follow: Monday, June 26 2006 Update following power outage Library services have now been restored.
  • report: A large proportion of FEIs ( 43 % ) appeared unaware of the list of major outages reported on the UKERNA web site.
  • have: During this time I have had one brief outage.

Preposition: for

  • maintenance: Planned outages for system maintenance can also impact business performance.

Adjective modifier

  • electical: In the areas struck by hurricane Frances, many offices have been switched to generator or battery power because of extensive electical outages.
  • unscheduled: Our email and web services are subject to scheduled and unscheduled outages which will impact your ability to use our services.
  • unplanned: The cost of an unplanned outage can range between £ 100K - £ 250K a day.
  • planned: A logon message is in place on the system advising users of the planned outage.
  • widespread: There were three widespread outages this quarter, lasting an average of 140 minutes each.
  • unexpected: She thought about unexpected power outages, about wandering the wrong way in pitch darkness.

Noun used with modifier

  • power: The price of a power outage also every time quickly adding more.
  • electricity: And, were it not outed, how could there be electricity outage?
  • network: What impacts network outage, server crash, or disk failure have on a business?
  • server: Temporary server outages are planned for every weekend in January.
  • maintenance: I worked on a major maintenance outage at Little Barford Power Station in Cambridgeshire.
  • communication: The entire queuing system, in addition, includes features designed to work around partial communications outages in the network.