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Also called blind spot . an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.

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How to use dead spot in a sentence

Sometimes they won’t play nice with a modem, or will drop service unexpectedly without giving you any reason why, or will leave big dead spots around your house.
Best mesh WiFi: Wrap your space in a comfy blanket of internet coverage|Edmund Torr|October 13, 2021|Popular-Science
If a single router still won’t cut it, or there are dead spots on account of interference, you can expand a router’s range with a WiFi extender, which can rebroadcast and extend the signals from existing routers.
Best gaming routers: Don’t let lag get in the way of a good time|Will Fulton|October 7, 2021|Popular-Science
We’ve already covered some of the hardware upgrades you can invest in to remove dead spots and get better home WiFi.
How to boost your WiFi speed|David Nield|October 3, 2021|Popular-Science
Previously the system produced a single magnetic field that swirled in a circle around the central pole, resulting in dead spots in the corners of the square room.
This Room Can Wirelessly Charge Devices Anywhere Within Its Walls|Edd Gent|September 3, 2021|Singularity Hub

The mesh WiFi technology adapts to your space to eliminate dead spots and buffering.
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I thought of the "dead spot" I had first heard about on the newscast the night before, and how it was steadily growing.
Call Him Savage|John Pollard
I have found the plant growing from a dead spot on the base of a living oak tree.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.|George Francis Atkinson
What a contrast between this dead spot and the railway that runs past it, always in a stir!
The Cathedral|Joris-Karl Huysmans