Katkemiste

Katkemiste is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun katkemus or katkestus, which refers to interruptions, outages, or breaks in a system or service. In practice, katkemiste is used in formal and technical contexts to denote multiple instances of such interruptions, rather than a single event.

Etymology and grammar: Katkemiste is formed from the base noun meaning interruption or outage, with the standard Estonian genitive plural ending. It is used when the noun governs another element in the genitive, for example in phrases like katkemiste arv (the number of outages) or katkemiste kestus (the duration of outages). The nominative plural of the same concept is katkemised or katkestused.

Usage and scope: The term appears mainly in technical, infrastructure, energy, telecommunications, and IT-service contexts. It appears in reliability and risk assessments, capacity planning, and service-level discussions. Katkemiste is commonly contrasted with katkestused (nominative plural) in sentences that treat outages as data points or subjects of analysis, such as reporting on outages over a period or describing their impact on availability.

Common collocations: katkemiste arv, katkemiste kestus, katkemiste sagedus (frequency of outages), katkemiste mõju (impact of outages), süsteemi töökindlus ja katkemised. It is part of a broader vocabulary for reliability engineering and service continuity in Estonian.

See also: katkemus, katkestus, katkemine, töökindlus, usaldusväärsus, nähtavus.