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
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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You're hoping he'll take flight, take you higher – then, alas, the fadeout and that familiar, close-but-no-cigar Vedder feeling.
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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
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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).
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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
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Sadly, they use it as a fadeout to the end of the song.
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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
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Mr. RICHARDS: Well, we were on a fadeout and you kind of like to let them rock as long as they are going.
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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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