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
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
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
Upon this desolate and dead spot, in the heart of the warm, live country, Robert Carlton stood looking within a few minutes of his exit from the hall.
From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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