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brownout

Informatics
A slowdown or lapse in the processing of information on an intranet or the Web, which is linked to software errors, excessive traffic on transmission lines and overload or frank failure of Web servers.
 
Medspeak
See Physician brownout.

Public health
The intentional drop in voltage supplied by a power company to a regional electrical grid imposed to prevent a blackout, which may result in flickering of lights and other electrical devices. Most hospitals have backup power supplies that automatically start up when power is lost.
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Despite this, electric co-ops, with their power suppliers, have purchased full-page newspaper ads to call SPSB's entry into their areas unfair and prejudicial to their interests, arguing that brownouts are due to "many factors that are beyond their control." These newspapers ads focus on the interests of electric co-ops, and fail to disprove that SPSB's projects have benefited thousands of Filipinos, and that House Bill 8179 stands to benefit many more Filipinos who have for years been left in the dark.
One way to deal with the deteriorating grid is to purposely drop the voltage output across a wide area rather than instate rolling brownouts to specified areas.
Pilots currently do make safe brownout landings--employing rolling techniques and relying on crew chiefs looking out the back door.
Both the three-judge district court and the Supreme Court appear to have assumed that the brownout period in the law lasted a total of ninety days every two years: thirty days before the primary and sixty days before the general election.
The highly publicized brownouts of California lately have put a crimp in shopping, as many California retailers will attest.
* Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units contain rechargeable batteries that store just enough electricity to allow the user enough time, in the event of a blackout or brownout, to properly save data in memory and safely turn off the machine.
The COP8SCR9 is the higher-voltage brownout version, from 4.2V to 4.5V.
During the brownout period that struck at past 3:00pm, the weather was not exactly that high at 33 to 34 degrees, manifesting then a power system that is lurking in a danger of power crisis.
However, Estorco-Macias said there is a need to establish the grid's brownout or loss of load or manual load drop expectation or probability called loss of load expectation to be able to determine how much "insurance plants" or peaking plants are needed to be developed and the amount of dispatch.
Under his tenure at the department, not a single power project of massive scale baseload capacity has reached "committed capacity" phase yet - and even greater "brownout danger" lurks following a Supreme Court decision that invalidated at least 90 power supply agreements of both existing and forthcoming power projects.
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