Usually means: Silence during a broadcast transmission.
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  1. dead air: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead air: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead air: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dead air: Vocabulary.com
  5. dead air: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dead air: Wiktionary
  7. dead air: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. dead air: Dictionary.com
  9. Dead Air (Heatmiser album), Dead Air, Dead air: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. dead air: Rhymezone
  11. dead air: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dead air: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. dead air: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead air: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead Air (novel), dead air: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead air: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead air)

noun:  (idiomatic, broadcasting) An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television.
noun:  (idiomatic, by extension) A quiet or awkward moment in a conversation where neither individual is speaking.

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