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uninterruptible power supplies

uninterruptible power supplies is the plural of uninterruptible power supply.

Meaning of uninterruptible power supply

Noun

uninterruptible power supply (plural uninterruptible power supplies)

  1. A device or system that almost instantaneously provides emergency power in the case that main power fails.
    • Examples of emergency power supplies include a storage battery or group of batteries, a generator driven by a fuel-supplied prime mover, or an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) […].2009, Geoff Craighead, High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, page 357

Questions about uninterruptible power supplies

What is uninterruptible power supplies the plural of?
Uninterruptible power supplies is the plural of uninterruptible power supply.

Words near uninterruptible power supplies in the dictionary

  1. uninterruptedness
  2. uninterruptibility
  3. uninterruptible
  4. uninterruptible power source
  5. uninterruptible power sources
  6. uninterruptible power supplies
  7. uninterruptible power supply
  8. uninterruptibleness
  9. uninterruptibly
  10. uninterrupting
  11. uninterruption

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