power outage

short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area
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power outage

Summary

power outage is a failure mode[1]. It draws 436 Wikipedia views per month (failure_mode category, ranking #3 of 17).[2]

Key Facts

  • power outage's image is recorded as Calle Larga at night during power cut.jpg[3].
  • power outage's instance of is recorded as failure mode[4].
  • power outage's GND ID is recorded as 4997345-9[5].
  • power outage's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85041887[6].
  • power outage's subclass of is recorded as outage[7].
  • power outage's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 01137850[8].
  • power outage's Commons category is recorded as Electric power blackouts[9].
  • power outage's pronunciation audio is recorded as De-Stromausfall.ogg[10].
  • power outage's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01rbhn[11].
  • power outage's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph1221528[12].
  • power outage's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph1226651[13].
  • power outage's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Power outages[14].
  • power outage's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1589395[15].
  • power outage's BBC Things ID is recorded as d66f90ff-ddaa-45d4-8d12-95978a4fb6f7[16].
  • power outage's different from is recorded as shutdown procedure[17].
  • power outage's YSO ID is recorded as 21611[18].
  • power outage's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as power-loss[19].
  • power outage's RIA Novosti reference is recorded as 40412731[20].
  • power outage's YSA ID is recorded as Y159256[21].
  • power outage's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/9121[22].
  • power outage's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007535929305171[23].
  • power outage's Yle topic ID is recorded as 18-216695[24].
  • power outage's Encyclopaedia Beliana ID is recorded as black-out[25].
  • power outage's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 07437106-n[26].
  • power outage's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2985627981[27].

Why It Matters

power outage draws 436 Wikipedia views per month (failure_mode category, ranking #3 of 17).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). power outage. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/power-outage
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_power-outage_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{power outage}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/power-outage}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 20d ago · Jeanne Noiraud · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of
    Handled, mitigated, or managed by power-system protection, emergency power system
    Instance of failure mode
    Different from shutdown procedure
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P276]]: [[Q177323]]"
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