Usually means: Gradually decrease until no longer.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word fade out:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. fade-out: Merriam-Webster
  2. fade-out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fade-out: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fade-out, fade-out: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fade out: Vocabulary.com
  6. fade-out: Wordnik
  7. fade (sth) out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fade-out, fade out: Wiktionary
  9. fade-out: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fade-out: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fade-out: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fade-out, fade out: Dictionary.com
  13. Fade Out (Hercules), Fade Out (album), Fade Out, Fade-out, Fade out, The Fade Out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. fade out: Rhymezone
  15. fade out: FreeDictionary.org
  16. fade out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. fade-out, fade out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. fade out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fade out: Legal dictionary
  2. fade out: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. fade-out, fade out: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fade out: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fade out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fade out: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fade out)

noun:  (film, television) A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut.
verb:  (idiomatic) To slowly disappear; to wither away.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To sneak away.
verb:  (film, television, transitive, intransitive) To fade from a cut to black in a movie.
verb:  (music, audio, transitive, intransitive) To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence.

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