fade-in

[feyd-in]

fade-in

[feyd-in]
noun
1.
Movies, Television. a gradual increase in the visibility of a scene.
2.
Broadcasting, Recording. a gradual increase in the volume of sound, especially of recorded or broadcast music, dialogue, or the like, usually starting from complete inaudibility.

Origin:
1915–20; noun use of verb phrase fade in
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Fade-in is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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fade-in
 
n
1.  films an optical effect in which a shot appears gradually out of darkness
2.  a gradual increase in the volume in a radio or television broadcast
 
vb
3.  Also: fade up to increase or cause to increase gradually, as vision or sound in a film or broadcast

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