September 17th, 2013

Facilities jargon: Energize

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Over in the product engineering groups, we aren’t often exposed to the jargon employed by our Facilities group. But once in a while, it leaks through and then we get to puzzle it out.

Emergency Electrical Outage and Restoral

Due to a transformer failure, power to building NNN was shut down from 6:00am to 6:30am on MMMM-DD.

Occupants may need to re-energize their office equipment.

From what we can gather, re-energize is just a fancy way of saying turn on.

Bonus jargon: Restoral.

Category
Old New Thing
Topics
Non-Computer

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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