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power failure

power failure noun: an unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity.

Noun

power failure (plural power failures)

  1. An unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity.
    • Sadly, some modern rolling stock engineers must hang their heads in shame after the recent power failures on Thameslink, where trains had to be reset by technicians after the supply frequency wandered off the 50hz.2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 43

power failure meaning in Tamil

power failure in Tamil

மின்தடங்கல்

Synonyms of power failure

Forms of power failure

pluralpower failures

Questions about power failure

What does power failure mean?
Power failure means an unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity.
What is power failure in Tamil?
Power failure in Tamil is மின்தடங்கல். See Power failure meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is power failure?
Power failure is a noun.
What is the plural of power failure?
The plural of power failure is power failures.

Words near power failure in the dictionary

  1. power equation
  2. power excursion
  3. power excursions
  4. power factor
  5. power factors
  6. power failure
  7. power failures
  8. power fantasies
  9. power fantasy
  10. power feminism
  11. Power Five

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Adapted from Wiktionary: power failure (page history and authors); power failure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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