apagón
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
apagón m (plural apagones)
- blackout, power cut, brownout, power outage (an interruption in the supply of electricity)
- 2021 February 18, Antonia Laborde, “Los apagones de Texas desatan un conflicto político”, in El País, retrieved 2021-02-18:
- ERCOT ha puntualizado que si bien los hielos han apagado algunas turbinas eólicas, ese ha sido el factor “menos significativo” en los apagones.
- ERCOT has specified that although the ice has stopped some wind turbines, that has been the “least significant” factor in the blackouts.
- blackout (an instance of censorship, especially a temporary one)
- el apagón de la Wikipedia en inglés en 2012
- the 2012 English Wikipedia blackout
- blackout, shutdown
- Preocupación en Ucrania por posible apagón masivo de Internet.
- Concern in Ukraine about a possible massive Internet shutdown.
- España hizo el apagón de la televisión analógica en 2010.
- Spain made the analog television switch-off in 2010.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Portuguese: apagão
Further reading
- “apagón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
- “apagón” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.
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