closure(STOPPING)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Machines - not functioning
act up
balky
blooey
break down
broken
brokenness
brownout
defunct
downtime
fail
flat
outage
power (something) down
seize
seize up
short circuit
shot
shudder
shut
whack

shutdown | American Dictionary

shutdown
noun[ C ]
us/ˈʃʌtˌdɑʊn/
the act of closing a factory or business or of stopping a machine:
The shutdown of the military base is scheduled for next summer.

shutdown | Business English

shutdown
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈʃʌtdaʊn/us
PRODUCTION, COMMERCE, GOVERNMENT
the act or process of ending the operations of a business, system, industry, etc., either temporarily or permanently:
The stock market has just resumed trading after a two-week shutdown.
Release of the figures was delayed by the partial shutdown of federal agencies in December and January.
The crowd gathered to celebrate the shutdown of the old power plant.
government/refinery/plant shutdown
PRODUCTION, IT
the act or process of stopping the operation of a computer or other machine:
The huge machine began its automatic shutdown.
an engine/system shutdown

Examples of shutdown

shutdown
The role of the human operator is restricted to reprogramming robot trajectory to suit the task, and initiating a shutdown when the robot malfunctions.
With this apparent shutdown of cone synaptic function in the dark, endocannabinoids may mitigate this reduction somewhat or may even promote it.
Our results show that shutdown of nuclear replication in developing pepper seeds marks the acquisition of seed desiccation tolerance.
Such institutions, based on their mutual veto powers, should have a tendency to restrain government, sometimes leading to deadlock, immobilism and even shutdowns of government.
Therefore, it may be justified to star t a new segment after the shutdown.
All trip demands cause shutdown of the appropriate outputs.
On shutdown, outputs shall latch in the de-energised state until the initiating condition has cleared and a manual reset of the logic has been performed.
The synthesis of operations for startup and shutdown is carried out according to an inventory-control algorithm.
And fewer persons said they would defend judges against wrongful dismissal (46 per cent) and newspapers against a government shutdown (45 per cent).
In the shutdown equilibrium, the firms are pessimistic and think that others will exit.
For example, during shutdown of a process, measurement sensors are often cleaned, repaired, or calibrated, which changes the characteristics of the device.
For continuous processes, a procedure describes the startup, shutdown, emergency and maintenance procedures.
At the same time trehalose leads to metabolic shutdown.
However, if this explains the clinical improvement of symptoms, it does not provide a clear mechanism to explain the shutdown of neurotransmitter release from a cluster of neurons.
We will look at an example where the device being controlled is a turbo-generator, and the sensor that might initiate shutdown of the device is a drilling warning sensor.
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