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ˈfade-out
[fade v.1 6 b, 7, 9.]
An act or instance of fading away or disappearing; spec.:
1. Cinematogr. and Television. The gradual blacking out or disappearance of a picture.
1918H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made vii. 176 Slowly the details of the picture are faded in until not only the girl's features are plain, but also the surrounding setting. The reverse of this—the gradual elimination of the scene—came to be known as fade-out. 1921Wodehouse Jill the Reckless xviii. 276 Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. 1934Electronics June 173/1 It is possible not only to change the focus easily so that close ups may be made, but ‘zooms’ and fade-outs are easily possible. 1959Punch 2 Dec. 543/1 Her protector..sadly lets her go, in time for the fadeout. 1962Movie Oct. 6/2 Hitchcock makes much use of the power of the fade-out for fixing impressions in the mind of the audience.
2. transf. and fig. Disappearance; death; see also quot. 1967.
1924A. J. Small Frozen Gold i. 39 It isn't natural for a whole tribe of stick-at-nothings to be able to do a fade⁓out like that. 1928Punch 21 Mar. 318/1 The veriest front-row flapper knows that marriage is the ‘fade-out’ of love. 1930London Mercury Feb. 324 Personally I don't want a sticky fade-out yet. 1937J. R. Firth Tongues of Men xi. 132 T. S. Eliot may perhaps be one of the ‘fade-out’ voices of a disappearing world. 1967Gloss. Paper/Ink Terms for Letterpress Printing (B.S.I.) 10 Fade-out, a gradual reduction in the strength of successive images, caused by the rate of removal of ink exceeding the rate of supply.
3. A temporary interruption of radio communication, caused esp. by ionospheric disturbance due to solar flares; fading.
1937Nature 9 Jan. 61/2 (heading) Solar eruptions and radio fade-outs. Ibid., Three radio fade-outs were reported later as having occurred during the morning of December 30 on short-wave..wireless transmission. 1941K. Henney Radio Engin. Handbk. (ed. 3) xv. 527 Ionospheric storms..resulting in fade outs. 1959Daily Tel. 16 May 1/1 The commercial possibilities of long-distance radio communication, with freedom from ionospheric fade-out and other disturbances. 1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics iv. 145 (caption) Recorded in D layer as radio fade-out.
4. Theatr. The dimming of the stage lighting. (Cf. fade n.1 3.)
1936I. Shaw Bury Dead 62 Send out the call... Women! (Fadeout). 1962[see fade n.1 3]. |