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fade time

fade time noun: the amount of time for a scene to fade to dark after lighting up.

Noun

fade time (countable and uncountable, plural fade times)

  1. The amount of time for a scene to fade to dark after lighting up.
  2. The time during which a wireless signal is too faint to be accurately received.
    • The annual fade time is three times that occurring in a heavy fading month when the climate is average.2006, Roger L. Freeman, Radio System Design for Telecommunications, page 31
    • The fractional fade time (also called the probability of fade) describes the percentage of time the irradiance of the received wave is below some given threshold value.2014, Arun K. Majumdar, Advanced Free Space Optics (FSO): A Systems Approach
  3. (light engineering, sound engineering) The amount of time for light or sound from a specified source to fade in from nothingness to the maximum that one is using, or to fade out from the maximum to nothingness.
    • Omitting this parameter invokes a default fade time, which is 1,000 milliseconds.2015, Michelle M. Fernandez, Corona SDK Mobile Game Development, page 183
    • The time is used to assign a fade time to a cue.2019, J. Michael Gillette, Michael McNamara, Designing with Light: An Introduction to Stage Lighting

Examples of fade time in a sentence

  • The mean fade time decreases with increasing elevation and fade threshold.2016, Murat Uysal, Carlo Capsoni, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Optical Wireless Communications: An Emerging Technology, page 95:
  • If the fade time is set to ten seconds, then they will fade up their intensity over a ten second crossfade.2021, Brad Schiller, The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook:

Forms of fade time

pluralfade times

Questions about fade time

What does fade time mean?
Fade time means the amount of time for a scene to fade to dark after lighting up.
How do you use fade time in a sentence?
The mean fade time decreases with increasing elevation and fade threshold.
What part of speech is fade time?
Fade time is a noun.
What is the plural of fade time?
The plural of fade time is fade times.

Words near fade time in the dictionary

  1. fade away
  2. fade in
  3. fade ins
  4. fade out
  5. fade outs
  6. fade time
  7. fade times
  8. fade to black
  9. fade to white
  10. fade-away
  11. fade-aways

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