"power failure" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "power failures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "power failure (plural power failures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Electricity",
          "orig": "en:Electricity",
          "parents": [
            "Electromagnetism",
            "Physics",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 43",
          "text": "Sadly, some modern rolling stock engineers must hang their heads in shame after the recent power failures on Thameslink, where trains had to be reset by technicians after the supply frequency wandered off the 50hz.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity."
      ],
      "id": "en-power_failure-en-noun-K7OCIvFR",
      "links": [
        [
          "electricity",
          "electricity"
        ],
        [
          "unscheduled",
          "unscheduled"
        ],
        [
          "accidental",
          "accidental"
        ],
        [
          "break",
          "break"
        ],
        [
          "supply",
          "supply"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electricity) An unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blackout"
        },
        {
          "word": "outage"
        },
        {
          "word": "power cut"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
          "word": "sähkökatko"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
          "word": "coupure de courant"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
          "word": "panne de courant"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
          "word": "coupure d’electricité"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
          "word": "panne d’electricité"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Stromausfall"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "strømbrudd"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
          "word": "queda de energia"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cădere de tensiune"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "power failure"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "power failures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "power failure (plural power failures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Electricity"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 43",
          "text": "Sadly, some modern rolling stock engineers must hang their heads in shame after the recent power failures on Thameslink, where trains had to be reset by technicians after the supply frequency wandered off the 50hz.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "electricity",
          "electricity"
        ],
        [
          "unscheduled",
          "unscheduled"
        ],
        [
          "accidental",
          "accidental"
        ],
        [
          "break",
          "break"
        ],
        [
          "supply",
          "supply"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electricity) An unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blackout"
        },
        {
          "word": "outage"
        },
        {
          "word": "power cut"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
      "word": "sähkökatko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
      "word": "coupure de courant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
      "word": "panne de courant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
      "word": "coupure d’electricité"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
      "word": "panne d’electricité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Stromausfall"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "strømbrudd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
      "word": "queda de energia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "power failure — see also power cut, outage, blackout",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cădere de tensiune"
    }
  ],
  "word": "power failure"
}