fade out

See also: fadeout, fade in, and fade-out

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

fade out (plural fade outs)

1. (film, television) A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut.

Translations

type of transition used in movies

• Finnish: häivytys (fi)
• French: fondu de fermeture m
• German: Ausblenden n

Verb

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

1. (idiomatic) To slowly disappear; to wither away.
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To sneak away.
3. (film, television, transitive, intransitive) To fade from a cut to black in a movie.
   • 2024, Jackie Evancho (lyrics and music), “Behind My Eyes”, in Solla‎^[1]:

     Fade in and out of a daydream / Our waking life torn at the seam / I am the match / You're the gasoline

4. (music, audio, transitive, intransitive) To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence.

Coordinate terms

• fade in

Translations

to slowly disappear

• Finnish: häipyä näkymättömiin
• Maori: memeha, rerehu, tāromaroma, kōriorio, ngongohe, tāmatemate
• Spanish: evanescer (es), desvanecer (es)

to fade from a cut to black in a movie

• Finnish: häivyttää (fi)
• German: ausblenden (de)