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What is the noun for brownout?

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brownout
  1. A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination
  2. Temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision.
  3. Temporary closing of a fire station, usually due to budget restrictions.
  4. a power outage during the day; distinguished from a blackout, which occurs at night
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “On rising suddenly from her chair she experienced a brownout and had to sit down again quickly.”
      “A heat wave caused a brownout in New York City, and as it struck, m zero automatically shut itself down, to protect its circuits, and died.”
      “While these adjustments may degrade the indoor environment, such practice may be a reasonable alternative to a brownout or blackout.”
brown
  1. (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  2. (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
  3. (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
  4. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
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browning
  1. The act or operation of giving a brown colour, as to gun barrels, cooked food, etc.
  2. (masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
  3. (Jamaica) A brown-skinned person.
brownface
  1. A style of theatrical makeup in which a white person colours the face brown in order to represent somebody of another race.
brownification
  1. Browning; especially the browning of lakes and streams due to increased dissolved humic material.
brownishness
  1. The quality of being brownish.
brownness
  1. The characteristic of being brown.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A direct profession of faith would be insufficiently impure, a denial of the brownness of real life.”
      “On the basis of a spectrum analysis, a forecast is made with respect to brix value, internal brownness and core rot.”
      “I am a brown-skinned poet who gave a better chance to another supposed brown-skinned poet because of our brownness.”
brownnesses
brownings
  1. plural of browning
brownouts
  1. plural of brownout
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In some states, we face the possibility of brownouts or blackouts in peak load periods.”
      “Other situations affecting power quality are transients or spikes, surges or over-voltages, noise and sags or brownouts.”
      “At the same time, could you provide a generator, for brownouts are continuously happening and there seems no permanent solution.”
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