Look up: quiesce

1. quiesce
   (networking) 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)
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2. Quiesce
   Qui·esce' intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Quiesced ; present participle & verbal noun Quiescing .] [ Latin quiescere , akin to quies rest, quiet. See Qui...
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3. Quiesce
   • (a. & n.) To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound.
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4. Quiesce
   `Quiesce` is used to describe pausing or altering the state of running processes on a computer, particularly those that might modify information stored on disk during a backup, in order to guarantee a consistent and usable backup. This generally requires flushing any outstanding writes, see bufferin...
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