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quiescent

adj
/kwaɪˈɛsənt/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quiēscēns, quiēscentem.

  1. learned borrowing from quiēscēns

Definitions

  1. Inactive, quiet, at rest.

    • The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.
    • In times of national security, the feeling of Patriotism among the masses is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist—in their case national glory or national danger awakens it, and it leaps up armed cap-a-pie.
    • Movement was then observed in a part of the wall which had been quiescent, and another group of struts was therefore constructed, again during traffic hours as well as at night.

  2. Not sounded

    Not sounded; silent.

    • The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".

  3. Non-proliferating.

The neighborhood

Derived

angioquiescent, immunoquiescent, nonquiescent, quiescence, quiescently, quiescin, semiquiescent, unquiescent

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA