quiesce : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: quiesce	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for quiesce
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quiesce v become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" Synonym(s): quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down Antonym(s): louden
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quiesce \Qui*esce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quiesced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quiescing}.] [L. quiescere, akin to quies rest, quiet. See {Quiet}, a. & n.] To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound. --M. Stuart.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
quiesce To render quiescent, i.e. temporarily inactive or disabled. For example to quiesce a device (such as a digital modem). It is also a system command in MAX TNT software which is used to "Temporarily disable a modem or DS0 channel". Also used as an adjective, in the expression "{quiesce time}". (2000-03-05)