brownout definition
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brownout brownout (plural brownouts) 1  A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination When demand for electricity exceeds the available supply, a brownout occurs. 2  Temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision. On rising suddenly from her chair she experienced a brownout and had to sit down again quickly. Temporary closing of a fire station, usually due to budget restrictions.
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What is a Sellout? A sellout is someone who has discarded his or her original principles. The sellout usually does an about turn from his or her previous views in order to make money or to become more commercially acceptable to the public. The term is most commonly associated with certain groups of people. Politicians are often described as sellouts.
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brownfield The term brownfield was originally used in construction and development to reference land that at some point was occupied by a permanent structure. In a brownfield project the structure would need to be demolished or renovated. Today, the term brownfield project is used in many industries, including software development, to mean to start a project based on prior work or to rebuild (engineer) a product from an existing one. Contrast with greenfield.
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Definitions &Translations Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Outfall. An outfall is the discharge point of a waste stream into a body of water; alternatively it may be the outlet of a river, drain or a sewer where it discharges into the sea, a lake or the like.
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Shutout For other uses, see Shut Out (disambiguation). In team sports, a shutout (a clean sheet (UK English) in association football) is a game in which one team prevents the other from scoring any points. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball.
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whiteout whiteout - cover up with a liquid correction fluid; white-out the typo white out cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; cover her face with a handkerchief; cover the child with a blanket; cover the grave with flowers 2.
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Brownian motion Brownian motion or pedesis (from Ancient Greek: πήδησις /pέːdεːsis/ leaping) is the random motion of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their collision with the fast-moving atoms or molecules in the gas or liquid. This transport phenomenon is named after the botanist Robert Brown.
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Definitions &Translations Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word bailout. Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: bailout(Noun) a rescue, especially a financial rescue. The government bailout of that corporation is going to cost the taxpayers a hundred billion dollars. bailout(Noun) a backup supply of air in scuba diving.
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- brownout - definition and synonyms. What are red words? 90% of the time, speakers of English use just 7,500 words in speech and writing. These words appear in red, and are graded with stars. One-star words are frequent, two-star words are more frequent, and three-star words are the most frequent.
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Definitions &Translations Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Bailout. A bailout is a colloquial pejorative term for giving a loan to a company or country which faces serious financial difficulty or bankruptcy. It may also be used to allow a failing entity to fail gracefully without spreading contagion.
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Ginger Root Tea for Diarrhea For over 2,000 years ginger root tea and other forms of ginger preparations have been used to relieve nausea, vomiting, indigestion, heartburn and diarrhea. Ginger root tea is made by steeping 2 tbsp. of minced ginger in hot water. Ginger tea can also be purchased in teabags.
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- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In electronics design, tape-out or tapeout, also known as pattern generation or PG, is the final result of the design process for integrated circuits or printed circuit boards before they are sent for manufacture. The tape-out is specifically the point at which the artwork for the photomask of the circuit is sent to the fabrication facility.
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Layoff A layoff (in British and American English) or retrenchment in (South African English) is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or (more commonly) a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as when certain positions are no longer necessary or when a business slow-down occurs.
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- Examples of WASHOUT. 1  He was a washout as a professional golfer. 2  The team lost so many games that the season was a total washout.ull Definition of WASHOUT. 1. a: the washing out or away of something and especially of earth in a roadbed by a freshet b: a place where earth is washed away.
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- The term outplacement refers to a service financed by companies for leaving employees, which is offered as a professional aid for professional reorientation, up to the conclusion of a new contract or business start-up. Die Begriffe Outplacement bzw.
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Lockout/Tag out Tag out is a labelling process that is always used when lockout is required. The process of tagging out a system involves attaching or using an indicator (usually a standardized label) that includes the following information: Why the lockout/tag out is required (repair, maintenance, etc.).
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brownfield brown·field. real estate, esp. the land, that is heavily contaminated with industrial pollutants, as an abandoned industrial site in a large city. Origin of brownfield. from connotative use of brown to contrast with the original “greenness” of the land.
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Selling out A sellout also refers to someone who gives up, or disregards, hence the term 'sells' - someone or something - for some other thing or person. The term could also be used as 'sold out' depending on the context.
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- outage. n. 1. (Commerce) a quantity of goods missing or lost after storage or shipment. 2. a period of power failure, machine stoppage, etc. (ˈaʊ tɪdʒ).
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- To some agencies they are the same action, and the term is used interchangeably. To other fire organizations, the meanings have been reversed or changed altogether. Burnout and Backfire do not mean the same thing. Burnout: (also known as burning out or firing out) involves setting fire inside of a fire line, including scratch lines or a wet line, to consume fuel between the edge of the control line and the fire to strengthen the fireline (create a blackline).
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Brownian motion Definition of BROWNIAN MOTION. : a random movement of microscopic particles suspended in liquids or gases resulting from the impact of molecules of the surrounding medium —called also Brownian movement.See Brownian motion defined for kids.ADVERTISEMENT.edical Definition of BROWNIAN MOTION. : a random movement of microscopic particles suspended in liquids or gases resulting from the impact of molecules of the fluid surrounding the particles—called also Brownian movement.
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Brownian Motion Brownian motion is among the simplest of the continuous-time stochastic (or random) processes, and it is a limit of both simpler and more complicated stochastic processes (see random walk and Donsker's theorem). This universality is closely related to the universality of the normal distribution.
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phaseout noun phase·out \ˈfāz-ˌau̇t\. : the act of stopping something gradually over a period of time in a planned series of steps or phases.
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Strike action A sickout, or (especially by uniformed police officers) blue flu, is a type of strike action in which the strikers call in sick. This is used in cases where laws prohibit certain employees from declaring a strike.
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Brownout (electricity) In some media reports the term brownout refers to an intentional or unintentional power outage or blackout of some areas rather than to a drop in voltage. Different types of electrical apparatus will react in different ways to a sag.
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Brownfield Redevelopment A brownfield is an abandoned, idled, or underused industrial or commercial facility in which redevelopment is burdened by real or potential environmental contamination.* Typical businesses that leave behind such contaminated sites include: 1  Railroads. 2  Gas stations. 3  Oil refineries.  Dry 1  cleaners. Liquid/chemical storage facilities.