POWER FAILURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does power failure mean? 

• POWER FAILURE (noun)
  The noun POWER FAILURE has 1 sense:

1. equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails

  Familiarity information: POWER FAILURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWER FAILURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

power failure; power outage

Context example:

the ice storm caused a power outage

Hypernyms ("power failure" is a kind of...):

breakdown; equipment failure (a cessation of normal operation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power failure"):

blackout (the failure of electric power for a general region)

flame-out (the failure of a jet engine caused by an interruption of the fuel supply or by faulty combustion)