Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage.
- n. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In electricity, the failure of an arc-lamp, in a series arc-circuit, to start when current is sent into the circuit.
- n. A charge made by the State of Maryland for the labor of handling tobacco inspected for export.
Wiktionary
- n. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply
- n. The amount of something lost in storage or transportation
WordNet 3.0
- n. a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers)
- n. the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation
Etymologies
- From out + -age, on the model of shortage. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Keepign servers up during a two+ hour outage is another.”
“Site down eh … look fopward to the changes – any idea how long the outage is going to be?”
“I guarantee you that the SRO and the plant management and the NRC and the BPA think a fire that causes an outage is both harm and foul.”
“If one has their Blackberry blessed, and soon thereafter curses it due to a service outage, is the blessing still valid?”
“Collateral effects of a longer-term outage [such as would almost certainly result from a massive space weather event] would likely include, for example, disruption of the transportation, communication, banking, and finance systems, and government services; the breakdown of the distribution of potable water owing to pump failure and the loss of perishable foods and medications because of lack of refrigeration.”
The Huffington Post: The Solar 'Katrina' Storm That Could Take Our Power Grid Out For Years
“I know this outage is probably bugging you even more than it is all of us, so I just want to tell you what a great web site you have.”
“After dinner we went to the library in case we still had no power (when you live in the country the absolute pitch black of a nighttime power outage is a little disconcerting with small, squirrely, active children) and then came home to lights and Cheerio Chocolate Chip Cookies.”
“With about two-thirds of the season complete, it's a good time to look at the overall numbers to see if the outage is just a one-year blip or perhaps the beginning of a trend.”
“If the estimated loss to the business of a 4 (or 8) hour outage is greater than three times that figure: Go for a cluster of servers.”
The importance of being available « Baby is 60 – Tim Panton on voice and computers
“This outage is giving me ideas for a low-tech decentralized way to do Twitter with RSS and software running on the desktop.”
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ITRE - energy - general terms
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
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Outta Here
outfox, outrage, outlandish, outdo, outrigger, outrun, outstretch, outbid, outcry, outtake, output, outrank and 49 more...
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Merriam Webster 2003 Word of the Year...
Won by democracy
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