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autofade

autofade noun: any feature (of a camera, audio mixer, etc.) that fades automatically.

Noun

autofade (uncountable)

  1. Any feature (of a camera, audio mixer, etc.) that fades automatically.
    • This automatically halts the autofade and returns control to the manual fader.1974, Willard F. Bellman, Lighting the stage: art and practice
    • One of the nicest enhancements on today's cameras is a circuit for fading to black at the end of a shot — autofade.1986, John Melville Bishop, Home video production: getting the most from your video equipment

Origin of autofade

From auto- + fade.

Questions about autofade

What does autofade mean?
Autofade means any feature (of a camera, audio mixer, etc.) that fades automatically.
What part of speech is autofade?
Autofade is a noun.

Words near autofade in the dictionary

  1. autofac
  2. autofacilitatory
  3. autofacs
  4. autofactories
  5. autofactory
  6. autofade
  7. autofail
  8. autofecundation
  9. autofecundations
  10. autofeedback
  11. autofellate

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