hibernation
IPA: haɪbɝnˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (biology, sleep) A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.
- (biology, sleep, space science) A hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights.
- (computing) A standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk.
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Examples of "hibernation" in Sentences
- To observe these white flocks of birds during their hibernation is genuinely a spectacle worthy of itself.
- After being in hibernation for decades, she suddenly awoke and decided it would be nice to be a US Senator.
- Observing the White Pelican Flocks during their period of hibernation is genuinely a spectacle all its own.
- If such beings did exist, they might live in hibernation, emerging only when life, spacefaring life, appears.
- As a result, Changing World is "in hibernation" until it can find a private investor willing to "come in and buy at a distressed value," he says.
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