dimout

n : darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a

city invisible to enemy aircraft) [syn: {blackout}, {brownout}]

timeout

A period of time after which an error condition is raised if

some event has not occured. A common example is sending a

message. If the receiver does not acknowledge the message

within some preset timeout period, a transmission error is

assumed to have occured.

(1995-11-09)