Outage vs Outate - What's the difference?
outage | outate |
A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.
As a noun outage
is a temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.As a verb outate is
(outeat).outage
English
Noun
(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.}}