quiesce

IPA: kwaɪˈɛs

(intransitive) To become quiet or quieter.
(transitive) To make temporarily inactive or disabled.
(computing, transitive) To pause or reduce the activity of (a device or application), for example to prepare it for backups or other maintenance.

Examples of "quiesce" in Sentences

CAQuietExec: Failed executing the command quiesce: Microsoft.
Data transfer may be temporarily suspended by using the QUIESCE method.
Pipelines begins terminating the pipeline by instructing all active stages to quiesce.
When a backup product requests a backup, it can tell VSS to "quiesce" these VSS-aware applications.
A te principium, in te recredit crimen quod a te fuit; peccasti, quiesce, as Ambrose expostulates with Cain, lib.
Another hymn of the same class is, "[10] Now hush your cries, and shed no tear," the "Jam moesta quiesce querela" of
When all active stages in the pipeline chain have responded to the quiesce command and have terminated; Pipelines terminates.
Because only at the source can you typically quiesce the application writing to the storage so that the snapshot will be a meaningful one.
It's times like this that I feel hungry and nauseated at the same time. * sigh* I think I will attempt to quiesce my brain and get some sleep. before | | this
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.
It also helped quiesce potential German opposition to Nazi policies; both by imposing state control on economic resources that any opposition movement would need to support itself, and by “buying off” potential opponents through welfare state handouts as Aly emphasizes.