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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At the same time, it has urged studios to join in creating event films for adults, especially for release in a September-October period that had previously been a dead spot, short on fantasy blockbusters.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2015
A dead spot having zero speed is created there.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
The league finished 2-5 in bowl games, which continues a dead spot in the post-season since the conference went 5-0 in 2008.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 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
The crowd in the harbour blended into a close, dark and dead spot, faceless, formless, motionless.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman
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