Outage
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A period when a service or system is unavailable or degraded enough to count as a real customer-impacting incident. In engineering slang, outages are the moments when every hidden tradeoff becomes public operational fact.
In plain English: A period of service downtime or serious service disruption.
Example: "What started as elevated latency crossed into a real outage once users could no longer complete the checkout flow reliably."