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say it: OW-tuhj
outage is a noun meaning "the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation". It is pronounced /ˈaʊtədʒ/ — OW-tuhj. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation
a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers)
“there will be a network outage from 8 to 10 a.m.”
computer
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for outage 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.