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Quiesce

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v. Become quiet or quieter.

v. To make temporarily inactive or disabled.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To become quiet or calm; become silent.

In philology, to become silent, as a letter; come to have no sound.

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v. become quiet or quieter

Word Usage

"The quiesce instance variable in the code above is a ReentrantReadWriteLock, so if anybody came in and called the quiesce method, they'd request the write lock and no further database commands could run until the lock was released."

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quiesced quiescing quiescent