Crossword clues for quiescent
quiescent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quiescent \Qui*es"cent\, a. [L. quiescens, -entis, p. pr. of quiescere: cf. F. quiescent. See Quiesce.]
Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.
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Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant; resting.
In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism . . . is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist.
--Prof. Wilson. (Gram.) Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in ``day'' and ``say.''
Quiescent \Qui*es"cent\, n. (Gram.)
A silent letter.
--M. Stuart.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin quiescentem (nominative quiescens), present participle of quiescere, inchoative verb formed from quies "rest, quiet" (see quiet (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 inactive, at rest, quiet. 2 (context grammar English) Not sounded; silent. 3 (lb en cell biology) Non-proliferating.
WordNet
adj. not active or activated; "the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation"
marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town"
being quiet or still or inactive
causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor"
Usage examples of "quiescent".
Each movement was wonderful, terrible, its pressure awakening nerves that had not been stirred by their earlier passion and reinflaming those that had become quiescent.
And there, in exacerbating viciousness, the resharpened vision of the maze exposed an insidious, fresh twist: the geas of Desh-thiere had not been quiescent.
Anguilla grass scattered by blimpbots across the southernmost zone of the Aldrin Plains had blossomed to produce a great deluge of uniform light green vegetation resembling a quiescent sea that was slowly progressing northward.
Geysir itself - the Gusher - which has given its name to all the other spouters in the world, was quiescent.
It was lunar morning, and the gleaming, uneroded, unoxidized metal of the quiescent launcher pointed directly at the sun.
The softly spoken Absarokee woke Blaze, but she lay drowsily quiescent, letting the sibilant cadence wash over her.
The brown sphere was spotted after some days by a prowling ameba, quiescent in the eternal winter of the bottom.
Normally quiescent organisms, such as staphylococcus, yeast, pseudomonas, or escherichia, can become deadly when they colonize the surface of some foreign object implanted inside the body.
Corvus Landing was a young, geologically quiescent planet with a generally mild climate and minimal native vegetation.
Only in the depths of winter were the flowering things quiescent, but then they continued glossy and green amid the more colourful leaves of the nonflowering plants that seemed to feel they had no need of further glory.
This simply indicates that, during lymphatic activity, the digestive organs are comparatively quiescent.
Stepping over the still quiescent fissures, she walked hastily southward along the wall with the wind catching at her heels.
Inside the meteorite, biogenic Makers had carried her quiescent pattern.
Had the authorities missed unregistered disciples who were even now wandering about the Commonwealth, intent on resurrecting that long quiescent, notorious research?
This part of Sunulok had grown an array of geometrically staggered coral blastulas where dozens of smaller villips lay quiescent.