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dead air

noun

Definitions

  1. An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted

    An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television.

    • They fired the production engineer because too many moments of dead air were interrupting the broadcast.

  2. A quiet or awkward moment in a conversation where neither individual is speaking.

    • Today we're going to try sitting with silence a bit. Don't worry about any moments of dead air in the conversation.

  3. Air that is subject to little or no ventilation, thus, little to no air exchange.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dead air. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA