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Princeton's WordNet

  1. attenuation, fadingnoun

    weakening in force or intensity

    "attenuation in the volume of the sound"

Wikipedia

  1. Fading

    In wireless communications, fading is variation of the attenuation of a signal with various variables. These variables include time, geographical position, and radio frequency. Fading is often modeled as a random process. A fading channel is a communication channel that experiences fading. In wireless systems, fading may either be due to multipath propagation, referred to as multipath-induced fading, weather (particularly rain), or shadowing from obstacles affecting the wave propagation, sometimes referred to as shadow fading.

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  1. fading

    Fading refers to the gradual reduction or loss of signal strength, visibility, sound, or intensity over a certain distance or time. It is a common phenomenon in wireless communications due to the changes in the transmission medium and its conditions. It can also refer to the gradual disappearance, diminution or loss of something such as a memory, a feeling, or a physical item.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fading

    of Fade

  2. Fadingadjective

    losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor

  3. Fadingnoun

    loss of color, freshness, or vigor

  4. Fadingnoun

    an Irish dance; also, the burden of a song

Wikidata

  1. Fading

    In wireless communications, fading is deviation of the attenuation affecting a signal over certain propagation media. The fading may vary with time, geographical position or radio frequency, and is often modeled as a random process. A fading channel is a communication channel comprising fading. In wireless systems, fading may either be due to multipath propagation, referred to as multipath induced fading, or due to shadowing from obstacles affecting the wave propagation, sometimes referred to as shadow fading.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fading in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fading in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of fading in a Sentence

  1. Capital Economics:

    The rapid fading of virus disruptions as China adapts to living with Covid-19, along with broader policy support, will drive a sharp recovery in domestic demand that will lift imports.

  2. New York:

    Large shareholders were urging management in private to do something about the company's fading image and poor marketing strategy, same-store sales — a key performance measure for the retail industry — were in steady decline, as was its stock price.

  3. Federica Mogherini:

    The policy of settlement expansion and demolitions, violence, and incitement tells us very clearly that the perspective that Oslo opened up is seriously at risk of fading away.

  4. Ken Cuccinelli:

    The major outcome of it that they've got to hate is that — I'll talk about it in the polling terms — it's staying high on people's issue radar, the economy is No. 1, and it should be because it's frankly destroying so many people's lives. But this isn't fading away, and it’s been elevated [by the bussing].

  5. Cathy McMorris Rogers:

    I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

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