brownout

What does brownout mean?

brownout means "darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)".

How many syllables are in brownout?

brownout has 2 syllables: brow-nout. The stress falls on "brow". In IPA it is /ˈbɹaʊˌnaʊt/.

What is another word for brownout?

Close synonyms include blackout, dimout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brownout a common word?

brownout is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with brownout?

1 word rhymes with brownout. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brownout come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.