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fade in

fade in noun: a type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.

Noun

fade in (plural fade ins)

  1. A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.

Verb

fade in (third-person singular simple present fades in, present participle fading in, simple past and past participle faded in)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To fade from black to a visual image in a film or other visual media.
    • Fade in and out of a daydream / Our waking life torn at the seam / I am the match / You're the gasoline2024, Jackie Evancho, “Behind My Eyes”, in Solla
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To commence with silence in a song and then slowly increase the volume of the music until the intro of the song is over.

fade in meaning in Tamil

fade in in Tamil

உண்மங்கியடைதல்

Forms of fade in

Noun
pluralfade ins
Verb
third-person singular presentfades in
present participlefading in
past participlefaded in
pastfaded in

Questions about fade in

What does fade in mean?
Fade in means a type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.
What is fade in in Tamil?
Fade in in Tamil is உண்மங்கியடைதல். See Fade in meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fade in?
Fade in can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of fade in?
The plural of fade in is fade ins.

Words near fade in in the dictionary

  1. faddles
  2. faddling
  3. faddy
  4. fade
  5. fade away
  6. fade in
  7. fade ins
  8. fade out
  9. fade outs
  10. fade time
  11. fade times

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fade in (page history and authors); fade in (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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