Radio Silence
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A period with no updates, responses, or visible signal from someone or something expected to be communicating. In engineering slang, radio silence is especially stressful during incidents and ownership handoffs.
In plain English: A period of complete silence when updates or communication are expected.
Example: "The worst part of the rollback was not the error itself but the radio silence from the one external dependency team whose behavior clearly mattered to recovery."