Definition of Blackout

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Blackout

The term 'Blackout' as it applies to the area of reclamation can be defined as ' The disconnection of the source of electricity from all the electrical loads in a certain geographical area brought about by an emergency forced outage or other fault in the generation, transmission, or distribution system serving the area. See brownout'.

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