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fadeout en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from fade out.

Meanings

  1. A gradual disappearance or fading away.
    • The scene ends with a fadeout to unconsciousness. 2009 February 17, Howard W. French, “Surviving a Hitch in an Army of Boys”, in New York Times:
    • Radio fadeouts in the arctic are caused by solar explosions and sunspot activity. 1959, United States, Rescue and Survival Specialist, Department of the Air Force, pages 3–22:

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