1. A momentary loss of consciousness.
2. Darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft); SYN. brownout, dimout; black-out
1. Zatamnjenje u filmu i na televiziji, kao element montaže.
2. Zamračenje zbog vazdušnog napada (eng.)
1. Potpuno opkoljavanje, okruženje grada, utvrđenog mesta ili neke teritorije radi prisiljavanja vojnih snaga na predaju.
2. Vojna, politička ili ekonomska izolacija neke države (posedanje luka, mora, reka, granica itd.) radi vršenja pritiska da bi prihvatila zahteve koji joj se postavljaju i nameću;
Opsada, zatvaranje jedne luke ili cele obale pomoću ratnih brodova u cilju spračavanja svakog uvoza i izvoza; opsada, zatvaranje sa svih strana grada, tvrđave; zatvaranje želčezničke skretnice; blokiranje.
Pomračenje Meseca ili Sunca, imali su veliki uticaj na drevne narode. U Indiji se smatralo da je Sunce ili Mesec progutalo neko čudovište, a u Kini su smatrali da je za to kriva žaba. Ponekad se mislilo da je Sunce ljuto na ljude. Pomračenja nebeskih tela dugo su smatrana znacima upozorenja uoči velikih katastrofa, kao što su ratovi, kuga, glad ili zemljotres.
The failure of electric power for a general region.
A condition in which the electricity level drops to zero; a complete loss of power. A number of factors cause a blackout, including natural disasters, such as a storm or an earthquake, or a failure in the power company’s equipment, such as a transformer or a power line. A blackout might or might not damage a computer, depending on the state of the computer when the blackout occurs. As with switching a computer off before saving any data, a blackout will cause all unsaved data to be irretrievably lost. The most potentially damaging situation is one in which a blackout occurs while a disk drive is reading information from or writing information to a disk. The information being read or written will probably become corrupted, causing the loss of a small part of a file, an entire file, or the entire disk; the disk drive itself might suffer damage as a result of the sudden power loss. The only reliable means of preventing damage caused by a blackout is to use a battery-backed uninterruptible power supply (UPS). See also UPS. Compare brownout.