outage

1. 1.

   the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation

   Broaderindefinite quantity
2. 2.

   a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers)

   “there will be a network outage from 8 to 10 a.m.”

   Broaderbreakdown

   computer

Other forms of outage

plural

outages·

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.

Questions about outage

What does outage mean?

outage means "the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outage?

outage has 2 syllables: ou-tage. The stress falls on "ou". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtədʒ/.

Is outage a common word?

outage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.