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Fade or Fade out can refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

  • Fade (song), a radio single by rock band Staind (and also the band Blue Angel)
  • Fade (film), a technique used in film.
  • Fade (audio engineering), the gradual increase or decrease in sound volume
  • Fade (lighting), the gradual increase or decrease in intensity of a light source
  • Fade (radio), the loss of signal strength at a radio receiver
  • In golf, a fade is a type of shot in which the ball curves slightly left to right in flight for a right handed player, and vice versa for a left handed player.
  • Brake fade, the condition where mechanical brakes lose stopping ability due to heating
  • Fabrics fade, caused by heavy exposure to light (especially UV), or by washing cycles
  • Fade (novel), a novel by Robert Cormier
  • Fade (computer game), a point-and-click adventure game for the Pocket PC/Windows Mobile platform.
  • A hairstyle characterized by a gradual decrease in the length of hair on the sides and back of the head is called a fade
  • Wheel of Time, fade is a type of creature also called a "myrddraal" in Robert Jordan's fantasy series
  • Fade margin
  • FADEā„¢, an anti-piracy method first used in the PC game Operation Flashpoint.[1]
  • Fade-serbian hard pop band. FADE

See also

 Eyeless, but can see like eagles in light or dark. Fades jump through the shadows, and can paralyze you with fear by just looking at you. Mirrors only reflect them as a mist, and they are only afraid of crossing running water. Other names for Fades are: Halfman, the Eyeless, Shadowman, Lurk, Fetch, and Myrddraal. 

Fade was an extremely obscure single released promotionally in the Philippines by the band Blue Angel, taken from their 1980 album also called Blue Angel. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Promotional recording. ... Staind is an American alternative metal group[1][2] from Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. ... Blue Angel was the name of the band (and debut album) that featured a pre-fame Cyndi Lauper. ... Fade, as it relates to film, is the process of causing a picture to gradually darken and disappear. ... In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the volume of a source, such as when a song is gradually reduced to silence at its end (fade-out), or gradually increases from silence at the beginning (fade-in). ... In stage lighting, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease of the intensity of light projected onto the stage. ... In radio communications, fade describes the loss of signal strength at the receiver. ... This article is about the sport. ... In automobiles, fade, or brake fade is the reduction in stopping power caused by a buildup of heat in the brake pads and rotors. ... Fade is a novel by Robert Cormier. ... In computer games, Fade is the first large-scale graphic adventure game to be developed for a mobile computing platform, in this case the Pocket PC. Fade takes place in present-day France, and you play as Louis, a married Frenchman suffering from amnesia since childhood. ... Street haircut in Harbin, China For humans, haircut, hairstyle, or hairdo normally describe cutting or styling head hair. ... This article is about a fantasy series. ... In telecommunication, the term fade margin (fading margin) has the following meanings: A design allowance that provides for sufficient system gain or sensitivity to accommodate expected fading, for the purpose of ensuring that the required quality of service is maintained. ... Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (OFP) is a critically acclaimed tactical shooter and battlefield simulator released in 2001. ... Fading (or fading channels) are mathematical models for the distortion that a carrier-modulated telecommunication signal experiences over certain propagation media. ...

References

  1. ^ 'Subversive' code could kill off software piracy, New Scientist (2003).

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Fading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (620 words)
Fading results from the superposition of transmitted signals that have experienced differences in attenuation, delay and phase shift while travelling from the source to the receiver.
Flat fading, where the bandwidth of the signal is less than the coherence bandwidth of the channel or the delay spread is less than the symbol period.
Fast fading, which has a high doppler spread, and the coherence time is less than the symbol period, and the channel variations are faster than baseband signal variations.
Fading Suns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (390 words)
Fading Suns is a science fiction space opera role-playing game published by Holistic Design.
The setting was also used for a PC game (Emperor of the Fading Suns), a live action role-playing game (Passion Play), and for a space combat miniature game (Noble Armada).
Fading Suns was written by Andrew Greenberg and Bill Bridges, known for having created the original Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse role-playing games for White Wolf.
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