STEM Dictionary

Information Technology:

Backdoor

Bandwidth

Banner

Binary

Bit

Bit field

Bluetooth

Broadcast

Broadcast Address

Brownout

Browser

Brute Force

Buffer

Bus

Byte

Brownout

Definition

1) a temporary reduction in electrical power OR 2)A temporary slowing down of the workings of the internet caused when too many users attempt to access it at the same time

Sentence

The brownout made everything so slow that I quit.

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 1104229, 1501756, and 1902474.