SHUTDOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shutdown mean? 

• SHUTDOWN (noun)
  The noun SHUTDOWN has 1 sense:

1. termination of operations

  Familiarity information: SHUTDOWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHUTDOWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Termination of operations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

closedown; closing; closure; shutdown

Context example:

they regretted the closure of the day care center

Hypernyms ("shutdown" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shutdown"):

plant closing (act of shutting down operation of a plant)

bank closing (act of closing down a bank because of a fiscal emergency or failure)

layoff (the act of laying off an employee or a work force)

Derivation:

shut down (cease to operate or cause to cease operating)

 Context examples 

A button and circuits designed to force the shutdown of a machine or device.

(Emergency Stop Button Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Since then, the government has reported more cases of measles, including 165 in the single day before the shutdown began.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

The process is vulnerable to power grid shutdowns.

(Researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater, National Science Foundation)

Issue associated with the device producing high temperatures, such that its operation is compromised (e.g. overheating that produces melting of components or automatic shutdown).

(Overheating of Medical Device or Device Component, Food and Drug Administration)

These codes beneath the asphalt send real-time information to the PMD, indicating the necessary reduction in speed, in accordance with the zone the user is crossing at the time (or triggering motor/engine shutdown in some cases), for example.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

On Thursday local time, the government of Samoa began a planned two-day shutdown to make way for a nationwide vaccination campaign to combat the measles outbreak that had, by reports, infected over 4,200 of the island nation's roughly 200,0000 residents since October and killed at least 62, including 54 small children.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)