backup power

collocation in English

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backup
noun
uk
/ˈbæk.ʌp/us
/ˈbæk.ʌp/
(someone or something that provides) support or help, or something that you have arranged in case your main plans, equipment, etc. ...
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power
noun
uk
/paʊər/us
/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition ofbackupandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He had a steam engine to providebackuppower.
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The fire knocked out power in many buildings on campus, including the residences, which also disabled thebackuppowerand even the fire alarms.
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This was mainly due to the loss ofbackuppowerat the cellular sites where generators ran out of fuel.
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The tunnels also contain hundreds of nickel-iron battery cells, used to regulate power and providebackuppower.
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The main building comprises the reactor, refueling machine and dieselbackuppowersupply, steam generators and reactor control systems.
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Due to a short circuit in the service busbar,backuppoweronly lasted three minutes before expiring and locking the aircraft controls.
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The quote above suggests that we can think of holdover in synchronization applications as analogous to running onbackuppower.
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This is accomplished through redundancy of both fiber optic cables and power, which includes emergencybackuppowergeneration.
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Large-format lead-acid designs are widely used for storage inbackuppowersupplies in cell phone towers, high-availability settings like hospitals, and stand-alone power systems.
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An emergency control station provides computerized monitoring for the entire complex, and four generators forbackuppower.
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As a result, small gasoline and diesel-powered generators are used asbackuppowersources.
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Direct-current systems could be directly used with storage batteries, providing valuable load-leveling andbackuppowerduring interruptions of generator operation.
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Power lines are buried, and generators supplybackuppowerin the event of a power failure.
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The facility is provided withbackuppowerand an independent water supply.
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Traffic lights, which had nobackuppower, were all knocked out.
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Sprint owns 15 patents on hydrogen fuel cells and is using 250 fuel cells to providebackuppowerfor its operations.
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Most hospitals lost power andbackuppowerwhen basements, the area where power and research data were kept, flooded.
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Finally, energy storage can be instrumental for emergency preparedness because of its ability to providebackuppoweras well as grid stabilization services.
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In 2004 the class was certified asbackuppowerfor malfunctioning locomotives.
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They are also used asbackuppowerto keep the time in certain electronic clocks.
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