Definitions

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  • noun A gradual disappearance.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a slow or gradual disappearance
  • noun a gradual temporary loss of a transmitted signal due to electrical disturbances

Etymologies

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fade +‎ out

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Examples

  • Brisbane had led by four goals midway through the third quarter and 20 points at the final change but were over-run by the Crows in another last-term fadeout.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Brisbane had led by four goals midway through the third quarter and 20 points at the final change but were over-run by the Crows in another last-term fadeout.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • You're hoping he'll take flight, take you higher – then, alas, the fadeout and that familiar, close-but-no-cigar Vedder feeling.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • Not helping this problem is the fact that, like the music in the direct rips I mentioned earlier, a number of tracks stop abruptly, where adding a simple fadeout would have worked wonders.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • Oh, and I like the gradual fadeout filibuster idea (a preset schedule of ever-lower vote threshholds to end debate, ending at a simple majority).

    Matthew Yglesias » Nuclear Warfare 2010

  • Not helping this problem is the fact that, like the music in the direct rips I mentioned earlier, a number of tracks stop abruptly, where adding a simple fadeout would have worked wonders.

    Beyond Good and Evil Official Soundtrack - A Review Ben Abraham 2009

  • Sadly, they use it as a fadeout to the end of the song.

    Best Saxophone Solos of The Eighties | myFiveBest 2010

  • But even by then, critics like Clement Greenberg were promoting Abstract Expressionism over figurative modernism, and Feininger began his fadeout.

    A Divided Artist Comes Home Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011

  • Mr. RICHARDS: Well, we were on a fadeout and you kind of like to let them rock as long as they are going.

    Keith Richards: An 'Exile' In France 2010

  • Even the simple formulae of popular music, like the pop song fadeout at the end of "The Sweets of Evening," have their place.

    Music review: Nico Muhly with the Washington Chorus at Atlas Performing Arts Center 2010

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