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brownout
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Wikipedia
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Brownout may refer to: Brownout (electricity) , drop in voltage in an electrical power supply, so named because it typically causes lights to dim Brownout (aviation) , reduced flight visibility due to airborne particles, especially from helicopter downwash ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
brownout \brown"out\ n. darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft). Syn: blackout, dimout. a partial reduction in the amount of electric power available to customers in a region, such as by reduction of voltage ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination 2 temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision. 3 temporary closing of a fire station, usually ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) [syn: blackout , dimout ]
Usage examples of brownout.
While California was experiencing rolling brownouts a few years ago, liberals steadfastly objected to building more power plants on the grounds that it would ruin the aesthetic of their hot tub lifestyles.
Ops main lighting, and the little shudder of brownouts that swept through half the surrounding panels.
Thus, if a brownout was not sufficient, the last resort was load shedding -committing large areas to total blackout.
The diverse demands and unforeseen surges of the day, in tandem with tonight's elevated blood alcohol levels, have driven her circuitry into a sputtering staticky condition near brownout or worse, she's phasing eccentrically in and out, her attention temporarily and fiercely magnetized by the oddest fragments of isolated fact, so while Gerri natters on, from bats and sex and reincarnation to -- working hard now to amuse her audience -- stale crowd-pleasers of lust and gaucherie among her wealthy clientele, Rho is pleasantly tuned to the resonant sound of hissing meat.
On the geographical display, the brownout spelled out an insult to the chairman's mother.
But fleetwide arrays logged signal deviance similar to the brownout incident, just prior to the neural event that seems to have taken out the surface elements.
A brownout was decreed: Consolidated Edison's coalpowered electricity-generating facilities alone used up nine hundred gallons of water for every kilowatt hour of energy produced.