Impairment vs Outage - What's the difference?
impairment | outage |
The result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor.
(accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
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As nouns the difference between impairment and outage
is that impairment is the result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor while outage is a temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.impairment
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Alternative forms
* empairment (rare)Noun
(wikipedia impairment) (en noun)outage
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(en noun)Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage , as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}