katkos

Katkos is a Finnish noun meaning interruption or break in continuity. It refers to a temporary stoppage in a process, a service, or a transmission, and is used to describe outages or pauses of varying duration. The term appears frequently in everyday language as well as in media reports, especially in contexts such as outages caused by technical faults, maintenance, or storms.

Common compounds include sähkökatkos, meaning a power outage, and yhteydenkatkos, meaning a loss of connection. Other examples include palvelukatkos (service interruptions) or tilapäinen katkos in a longer routine or workflow. In many contexts katkos conveys a noticeable halt that interrupts normal progress or communication.

Etymology and related forms: Katkos derives from the verb katketa, meaning to break or stop suddenly. It is related to the noun katko, and the plural form katkokset is used for multiple interruptions. The term can appear in headlines and summaries to succinctly indicate an outage or pause.

See also: keskeytys, a more formal or deliberate interruption; katkeaminen, the act of breaking or breaking apart, used in some technical or literary contexts.

Overall, katkos functions as a general label for disruptions to ongoing activities, services, or transmissions, with specific compounds naming the exact type of interruption.