quiescence

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The state of being quiescent; dormancy.

   “Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.”

2. isim Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
3. isim The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.

   “I pray you, Salviatus, to tell me ... the cause of the Pendulum's quiescence.”

4. isim The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
5. isim In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse environmental conditions, which, unlike diapause, does not involve physiological changes.