blackout

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A temporary loss of consciousness.
2. (countable, uncountable) A temporary loss of memory.
3. (countable, uncountable) A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
4. (countable, uncountable) An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.
5. (Internet, countable, uncountable) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest.
6. (countable, historical, uncountable) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
7. (attributive, countable, uncountable) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
8. (countable, rare, slang, uncountable) A mass murder committed, usually in an urban area, to eliminate potential witnesses of a previous crime.

Verb

Alternative form of black out.

Sinónimos

swoon

faint

syncope

brownout

power outage

stupor

power failure

unconsciousness

dimout

power cut

insensibility

amnesia

obfuscation

trance

stupefaction

memory loss

total eclipse

loss of consciousness

electricity outage

failure of electricity supply

blankoff

deliquium

BO

amaurosis fugax

black out

black-out

blanking

collapse

coma

darkening

eclipse

giddiness

haze

occultation

screen

shading

shadow

shadowing

shelter

Traducións

Stromausfall

συσκότιση

blecaute

blackout

apagón

Blackout

apagão

oscuramento

Ohnmacht

amnesia

panna

Sperre

amnésie

σκοτοδίνη

black-out

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈblæk.aʊt/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Deverbal from black out.