quiescence

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being quiescent; dormancy. countable,uncountable
    — 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. Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless. countable,uncountable
  3. The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state. countable,uncountable
    — I pray you, Salviatus, to tell me ... the cause of the Pendulum's quiescence.
  4. The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division. countable,uncountable
  5. In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse environmental conditions, which, unlike diapause, does not involve physiological changes. countable,uncountable

词形变化

quiescences plural

词汇关系

衍生词
immunoquiescence nonquiescence

词源

From quiescent + -ence, or borrowed from Latin quiescentia, from quiescens, present participle of quiesco, from quies.
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