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Type Words
Synonyms dormancy, quiescency, sleeping
Type of rest, ease, relaxation, repose
Has types vegetation
Derivation quiescent
Type Words
Synonyms dormancy, quiescency
Type of inactiveness, inactivity, inaction
Has types aestivation, estivation, hibernation, slumber
Derivation quiescent

Examples of quiescence

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Depletion of nuclear actin is a key mediator of quiescence in epithelial cells.
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In the weeks before Tet, a curious quiescence had enveloped the battlefield.
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None has any interest in providing Mr Sharon or America with the quiescence demanded.
From the economist.com
It stays in a state of quiescence, until by God's creative urge it becomes manifest again.
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Bone morphogenetic protein-9 is a circulating vascular quiescence factor.
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Thus, Satb1 is a regulator that promotes HSC quiescence and represses lineage commitment.
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Eager buyers are literally submerged into quiescence by the deluge.
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These forms of dormancy are also known as cryptobiosis or quiescence.
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Hence everything is tending towards a goal of spiritual quiescence.
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More examples
  • Dormancy: a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy"
  • Quiet and inactive restfulness
  • (quiesce) quieten: become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"
  • (quiescent) not active or activated; "the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation"
  • (quiescent) marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town"
  • (quiescent) being quiet or still or inactive
  • (quiescent) (pathology) causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor"
  • Quiesce is used to describe pausing or altering the state of running processes on a computer, particularly those that might modify information stored on disk during a backup, in order to guarantee a consistent and usable backup. ...
  • (quiescent) adj.Being in a state of repose or inaction