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Etymology

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From auto- +‎ fade.

Noun

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autofade (uncountable)

  1. Any feature (of a camera, audio mixer, etc.) that fades automatically.
    • 1974, Willard F. Bellman, Lighting the stage: art and practice:
      This automatically halts the autofade and returns control to the manual fader.
    • 1986, John Melville Bishop, Home video production: getting the most from your video equipment:
      One of the nicest enhancements on today's cameras is a circuit for fading to black at the end of a shot — autofade.

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