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blackout
[ blak-out ]
noun
- the extinguishing or concealment of all visible lights in a city, military post, etc., usually as a precaution against air raids.
- a period during a massive power failure when the lack of electricity for illumination results in utter darkness except from emergency sources, as candles.
- Theater.
- the extinguishing of all stage lights, as in closing a vaudeville skit or separating the scenes of a play.
- Also called blackout skit. a skit ending in a blackout.
- Pathology.
- temporary loss of consciousness or vision:
She suffered a blackout from the blow on the head.
- a period of total memory loss, as one induced by an accident or prolonged alcoholic drinking:
The patient cannot account for the bizarre things he did during his blackout.
- a brief, passing lapse of memory:
An actor may have an occasional blackout and forget a line or two.
- complete stoppage of a communications medium, as by a strike, catastrophe, electrical storm, etc.: a radio blackout.
a newspaper blackout;
a radio blackout.
- a stoppage, suppression, or obliteration:
a news blackout.
- a period during which a special sales offer, fare rate, or other bargain is not available:
The airline's discount on fares does not apply during the Christmas week blackout.
- Radio and Television. a prohibition that is imposed on the broadcasting of an event and has the purpose of encouraging or ensuring ticket sales.
blackout
/ ˈæ첹ʊ /
noun
- the extinguishing or hiding of all artificial light, esp in a city visible to an enemy attack from the air
- a momentary loss of consciousness, vision, or memory
- a temporary electrical power failure or cut
- electronics a temporary loss of sensitivity in a valve following a short strong pulse
- a temporary loss of radio communications between a spacecraft and earth, esp on re-entry into the earth's atmosphere
- the suspension of radio or television broadcasting, as by a strike or for political reasons
verb
- tr to obliterate or extinguish (lights)
- tr to create a blackout in (a city etc)
- intr to lose vision, consciousness, or memory temporarily
- tr, adverb to stop (news, a television programme) from being released or broadcast
blackout
- The complete loss of electrical power in a particular area. Blackouts can result from a natural disaster, a manmade catastrophe, or simply from an excess of energy demand over supply. ( Compare brownout .)
Notes
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of blackout1
Example Sentences
El-Kadhi told Salon that before the electrical blackout imposed on Oct.
It said that 80 percent of Gaza’s power infrastructure is wrecked and that Gazans have experienced a “near-total blackout” since the start of the war.
The wrongful death legal case claims the four children died attempting a so-called "blackout challenge", where participants hold their breath until they pass out because of a lack of oxygen.
Russian strikes on Ukraine's power supply have caused widespread blackouts throughout the war, leaving thousands of people without heating in the cold of winter.
Those scenes return to Saxon before the blackout clears for Lochlan.
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