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Brownout

🔄 Synonyms of "Brownout"

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
dimoutnoun	A (scheduled or accidental) general reduction in electrical power, like a blackout but less severe.
blackoutnoun	A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Brownout"

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Word	Definition
blackoutnoun	A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
dimoutnoun	A (scheduled or accidental) general reduction in electrical power, like a blackout but less severe.
blankoutnoun	A temporary loss of consciousness.
emergency lightnoun	An electric light that turns on to give light during a power outage.
lights-outnoun	The time at night at which artificial lights are to be turned off, a curfew or bedtime.
power failurenoun	(electricity) An unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity.
undervoltagenoun	A voltage that is too low.
lowlightnoun	A particularly unfavorable or mediocre moment or aspect.
downtimenoun	A period of time when work or other activity is less intense or stops.
dark	Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
off timenoun	Time when one is not working.
lights outnoun	(idiomatic) Unconsciousness.
unilluminationnoun	Absence of illumination.
nonilluminationnoun	Absence of illumination.
occulting lightnoun	A light in which the total duration of light in each period is clearly longer than the total duration of darkness and in which the intervals of darkness (occultations) are all of equal duration.
lightlessnessnoun	The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
outagenoun	A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
underexposurenoun	An insufficient, or less than usual, exposure.
blankingnoun	An instance of something being blanked out.
nightblindnessnoun	Alternative form of night blindness. [The optic condition nyctalopia, the inability to see clearly in faint light, as at night.]