Quiescence

Word QUIESCENCE
Character 10
Hyphenation qui es cence
Pronunciations /kwiˈɛsəns/

Definitions and meanings of "Quiescence"

What do we mean by quiescence?

The state of being quiescent; dormancy.

Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.

The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.

The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.

In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse environmental conditions, which, unlike diapause, does not involve physiological changes.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Quiescence

The word "quiescence" in example sentences

Seeing society's behavior, which ranges from sheer panic to quiescence, is downright creepy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Repairing this damage would require at least a decade of relative quiescence, which is nowhere in sight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the moment, he had been stunned into a kind of quiescence; now his nerves throbbed and tingled. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This quiescence continues, till the sensorial power becomes again accumulated in the torpid organs; and then the usual diurnal stimuli excite the revivescent parts again into action; but as this kind of quiescence continues but a short time compared to the cold paroxysm of an ague, and less affects the circulatory system, a less superabundancy of exertion succeeds in the organs previously torpid, and a less excess of arterial activity. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

This very suggestive phrase is more than what Freud might be suggesting, however: "quiescence" implies something still living, where "inertia" would have brought it to a dead stop; one is reminded of Keats's "quiet breathing" ( "A thing of beauty is a joy forever ..." ❋ Unknown (2001)

"quiescence" (no flaring), the diminishing X-ray flux from the cooling neutron star crust reveals a huge wealth of information about the characteristics of the neutron star. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It has taken a crisis of previously unimaginable scale and scope, but the euro zone's public space is no longer marked by quiescence and excessive politeness. ❋ Paul Hannon (2011)

Such a view, Mr. Wolfe fears, encourages political quiescence. ❋ Peter Berkowitz (2011)

Shuster and Siegel had nothing to say about Nazi Germany's war against the democratic powers of France and Britain, which at that point was in the "Phoney War" quiescence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As official society adapted to the permanence of unemployment, the unemployed themselves subsided into political quiescence. ❋ Steve Fraser (2011)

Russian history alternates long periods of quiescence with sudden rebellions. ❋ Fouad Ajami (2012)

He has brutalized the pro-democracy Green Movement into quiescence. ❋ Reuel Marc Gerecht (2011)

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