cross-fade

American  

[kraws-feyd, kros-, kraws-feyd, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˈfeɪd, ˈkrɒs-, ˈkrɔsˌfeɪd, ˈkrɒs- /

verb (used with object)

cross-faded, cross-fading

1. to fade out (an image or sound) while simultaneously fading in a different image or sound.

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noun

1. an act or instance of cross-fading.

cross-fade British  

verb

1. radio television to fade in (one sound or picture source) as another is being faded out

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Etymology

Origin of cross-fade

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Hal Ashby and Jack Nicholson’s 1973 bittersweet drama “The Last Detail” proved especially inspiring in its use of transitional “dissolves” that cross-fade slowly from one scene to the next.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

But there was a disconnect to Mercury Soul that couldn’t be solved, no matter how clean the cross-fade between DJ and orchestra.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2016

"Spike the music on the corner, and then cross-fade," she directs her team.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2014

At the cross-fade of the millennium, it sounded perfect – a radical masterpiece, on the side of the dispossessed and immigrants, that united, irresistibly, a European and South American perspective.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2013