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quiescent

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quiescent [kwē′es·ənt]
(electronics)
Pertaining to a circuit element which has no input signal, so that it does not perform its active function.
(engineering)
Pertaining to a body at rest, or inactive, such as an undisturbed liquid in a storage or process vessel.
(medicine)
Inactive, latent, or dormant, referring to a disease or pathological process.
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[1] After a student has received his ribbon, he is "free"; he can cease from fighting, without reproach--except some one insult him; his president cannot appoint him to fight; he can volunteer if he wants to, or remain quiescent if he prefers to do so.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
They may scorn cash now; but let some months go by, and no perspective promise of it to them, and then this same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would soon cashier Ahab.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
On these lonely hills and dales her quiescent glide was of a piece with the element she moved in.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
 
 
 
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