dead spot

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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

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

I have found the plant growing from a dead spot on the base of a living oak tree.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis