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  • verb Present participle of island.
  • noun The condition of a distributed generation (DG) generator continuing to power a location even though power from the electric utility is no longer present.

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Examples

  • Faster than most humans could respond, power grids across the region began "islanding" themselves, disconnecting automatically from the overloaded system.

    What Went Wrong 2008

  • The isolation of a PV source is called "islanding," and the goal is to control when islanding should occur.

    Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com 2010

  • I went off on a summer trip about a week later, up to a remote island off the coast of Washington State, and while happily islanding without a thought to the technical world left behind, got a phone call.

    Lorraine Devon Wilke: My Good Steve Jobs Story Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011

  • The power was technically off in the tunnel but maybe this was a case of islanding or backfeed, if she remembered what Sommers had told her.

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • The power was technically off in the tunnel but maybe this was a case of islanding or backfeed, if she remembered what Sommers had told her.

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • In fact, Reichardt filmed these scenes on location in a suburb of Portland, and her detachment of the sub from the urb, islanding it amid woods and water as a dismal stand-alone community, is a clever piece of artifice that is strikingly true to the character of the region, where so many towns look a lot like this, but none is quite as perfectly centerless and accidental as this one.

    Metronatural America Raban, Jonathan 2009

  • Dozens of streams leapt from either side of the great gorge and crisscrossed, occasionally islanding the floor of the pass into hillocks.

    Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

  • A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of skyline, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand; and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • Labor, islanding the air with clouds of incense more grateful to the

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

  • A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of skyline, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand; and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

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