brownout
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7.8
- noun
- /ˈbraʊnaʊt/
- Specialized
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reducción de servicio
- To avoid crashing the server, the IT department decided to initiate a brownout by lowering the quality of non-essential services.
Examples
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During the brownout, several features were disabled to help maintain system performance under heavy load.
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And that little brownout you staged before was brilliant.
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You will just be "frozen" online for the brownout time period.
Blog text (25) -
I think they'll be used to load balance and will go a long way in preventing brownouts.
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The company implemented a brownout to ensure that essential services remained available during peak usage hours.
Antonyms
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4.1
A level where staff do many things for customers, like pumping gas or helping at a hotel
How Degraded
Surface Forms
Morphology
brownout = brown (opaque) = out + brown
Although the compound is historically built from 'brown' and 'out', the technical sense 'partial service degradation to preserve availability' is not a meaning that learners can derive by normal compositional rules. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
In computing, brownout is a borrowed image from lighting: rather than a full 'out' or outage, engineers deliberately 'dim' some features to lower load. That's why a brownout in systems means a planned, partial reduction of service to keep the rest running.