Verb: quiesce
- Become quiet or quieter
"The crowd quiesced as the speaker approached the podium";
- quieten [Brit], hush, quiet, quiet down, pipe down [informal]
- (especially in computing) bring to or reach a state of inactivity or dormancy
"The system will quiesce all database operations before backup"
Derived forms: quiesces, quiesced, quiescing
Type of: change intensity
Encyclopedia: Quiesce