dead spot
Americannoun
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Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
Example Sentences
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Living in a mobile dead spot has one upside, according to Raeder, who runs a small museum dedicated to East German army radio technology: the lack of infrastructure means housing is affordable.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2020
A dead spot having zero speed is created there.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Elle Macpherson, the show’s host, is the only dead spot, but she isn’t around much.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2012
But moving speech processing to the cloud means that if the server crashes, or if the phone is in a dead spot, voice commands stop working.
From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 4, 2011
"From all I can learn it's just a dead spot on the map," Penny declared.
From Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery by Clark, Joan
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