blackout
停电,断电,停电了,停电事故
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- : 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 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.
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Last year, when California’s utilities first began carrying out widespread blackouts like this, some homes and businesses were left in the dark for days.
Home to over 12 million people, the region has suffered tremendously as a result—unemployment has spiked and over $1 billion in economic losses have been attributed to the blackout.
India has imposed hundreds of internet blackouts in different parts of the country over the past few years, including cutting off connectivity throughout the disputed state of Kashmir for six months.
In the past few years, India has imposed hundreds of internet blackouts in different parts of the country, sometimes just for hours, sometimes for months.
In Kashmir, the blackout meant that switching schools—and businesses to the internet—was a nonstarter.
And so as Friday dawned, the Great CBS Blackout of 2013 entered its eighth day.
The Great Blackout of 2011 gridlocked traffic, closed schools and canceled flights.
Well, he certainly wasn't much of a perceptive, or he would have been able to handle the Blackout himself.
My Blackout victim was reaching out, trying to find something he could use to raise himself to his feet.
I picked her up in my arms and carried her to the same sawdust-strewn private dining room where I'd given Barney the Blackout.
A Blackout is quite effective—it's hard to hit what you can't see.