For Blackout we have terms and definitions in 8 topics. The topics are Addiction, Bingo, Drama, Energy, Football, Technology, UPS and Uk Power.

Blackout (Addiction)

Acute anterograde amnesia with no formation of long-term memory, resulting from the ingestion of alcohol or other drugs; i.e. a period of memory loss for which there is no recall of activities.

Blackout (Bingo)

(Also, Coverall) A pattern where you must cover the whole card to win. Usually 50 to 60 of the 75 bingo numbers have to be called to cover all the numbers on a card. But blackouts in as few as 43 numbers have been recorded.

Blackout (Drama)

All stage lights go off simultaneously

Blackout (Energy)

A power loss affecting many electricity consumers over a large geographical area for a significant period of time.

Blackout (Football)

When a regional network TV affiliate is forbidden from showing a local game because it is not sold out. The New Orleans Saints have been blacked out for years.

Blackout (Technology)

A condition in which the electricity level drops to zero; a complete loss of power. A number of factors cause a blackout, including natural disasters, such as a storm or an earthquake, or a failure in the power company's equipment, such as a transformer or a power line. A blackout might or might not damage a computer, depending on the state of the computer when the blackout occurs. As with switching a computer off before saving any data, a blackout will cause all unsaved data to be irretrievably lost. The most potentially damaging situation is one in which a blackout occurs while a disk drive is reading information from or writing information to a disk. The information being read or written will probably become corrupted, causing the loss of a small part of a file, an entire file, or the entire disk; the disk drive itself might suffer damage as a result of the sudden power loss. The only reliable means of preventing damage caused by a blackout is to use a battery-backed uninterruptible power supply (UPS). See also UPS. Compare brownout.

Blackout (UPS)

A zero voltage condition lasting for more than two cycles. Same as a power failure

Blackout (Uk Power)

The emergency loss of the source of electricity serving an area caused by failure of the generation, transmission, or distribution system

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