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fade time en · NOUN

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1. (countable, uncountable) The amount of time for a scene to fade to dark after lighting up.
2. (countable, uncountable) The time during which a wireless signal is too faint to be accurately received.
   • Figure 4.12 of [8] shows that on the same path from which the data in Fig. 4.11 of [8] was derived, for fade depth deeper than about 20 dB, the fade time decreases by a factor of about 10 for a 10 dB increase in fade depth. 2021, Douglas H Morais, 5G and Beyond Wireless Transport Technologies, page 62:
   • The mean fade time decreases with increasing elevation and fade threshold. 2016, Murat Uysal, Carlo Capsoni, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Optical Wireless Communications: An Emerging Technology, page 95:
   • The fractional fade time (also called the probability of fade) describes the percentage of time the irradiance of the received wave is below some given threshold value. 2014, Arun K. Majumdar, Advanced Free Space Optics (FSO): A Systems Approach:
   • The annual fade time is three times that occurring in a heavy fading month when the climate is average. 2006, Roger L. Freeman, Radio System Design for Telecommunications, page 31:
3. (countable, qualifier:light engineering; sound engineering; light engineering; sound engineering, uncountable) The amount of time for light or sound from a specified source to fade in from nothingness to the maximum that one is using, or to fade out from the maximum to nothingness.
   • The time is used to assign a fade time to a cue. 2019, J. Michael Gillette, Michael McNamara, Designing with Light: An Introduction to Stage Lighting:
   • Omitting this parameter invokes a default fade time, which is 1,000 milliseconds. 2015, Michelle M. Fernandez, Corona SDK Mobile Game Development, page 183:
   • If the fade time is set to ten seconds, then they will fade up their intensity over a ten second crossfade. Changing the fade time of the cue will adjust the fade time for all parameters stored within that cue. 2021, Brad Schiller, The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook:

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