New word? / technical term?

[Mark Mandel]

Ditto. An obvious analog:
intro : in :: outro : out

m a m

On Feb 11, 2008 9:14 PM, Michael H Covarrubias <mcovarru at purdue.edu> wrote:

> I've heard it referring to the passage that plays out a piece. often a
> repeated
> and fading segment.
>
> OED has it with a first cite 1967
> ----------
> A concluding section, esp. of a piece of music or a broadcast programme.
> Freq.
> contrasted with intro.
> ----------
>
> michael
>
>
> Quoting Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>:
> >
> >
> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26149/sound-studio-monbot%3a-bookend-audio
> >
> > [P]lugin adds an -intro_ and [an] _outro_ to an audio [file].
> >
> > I'm not hip enough to this stuff to know what an "outro" is.
> >
> > -Wilson
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