Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being quiescent or inactive; rest; repose; inactivity; the state of a thing without motion or agitation: as, the quiescence of a volcano.
- noun In philology, silence; the condition of not being heard in pronunciation: as, the quiescence of a letter.
- noun In biology, quietude or inactivity; a state of animal life approaching torpidity, but in which the animal is capable of some motion, and may receive food: it is observed among insects during either hibernation or pupation, and in many other animals both higher and lower in the scale than these.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being quiescent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
quiescent ;dormancy . - noun Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
- noun The
action of bringing something torest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state. - noun microbiology When a
cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction
- noun quiet and inactive restfulness
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Examples
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Seeing society's behavior, which ranges from sheer panic to quiescence, is downright creepy.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #25 edited by Gardner Dozois 2008
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Seeing society's behavior, which ranges from sheer panic to quiescence, is downright creepy.
REVIEW: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan 2008
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Seeing society's behavior, which ranges from sheer panic to quiescence, is downright creepy.
REVIEW: Mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Allan Kaster 2008
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Seeing society's behavior, which ranges from sheer panic to quiescence, is downright creepy.
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Seeing society's behavior, which ranges from sheer panic to quiescence, is downright creepy.
REVIEW: The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction edited by George Mann 2007
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Repairing this damage would require at least a decade of relative quiescence, which is nowhere in sight.
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But as a greater torpor follows this exhaustion of sensorial power, as explained in the next paragraph, and a greater exertion succeeds this torpor, the constitution frequently sinks under these increasing librations between exertion and quiescence; till at length complete quiescence, that is, death, closes the scene.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Jan 09, 2009 | not rated yet | no comments yet A new study sheds light on a little understood biological process called quiescence, which enables blood-forming stem cells to exist in a dormant or inactive state in which they are not growing or dividing.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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A new study sheds light on a little understood biological process called quiescence, which enables blood-forming stem cells to exist in a dormant or inactive state in which they are not growing or dividing.
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At the moment, he had been stunned into a kind of quiescence; now his nerves throbbed and tingled.
Maurice Guest 2003
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