Ruhezustand — meaning in English
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English meaning
- dorm verb To live in a dormitory.
- hibernate verb For an animal to spend winter in a dormant, low-energy state.
- hibernation noun A state of greatly reduced activity and metabolism that some animals enter during winter.
Senses
Ruhezustand is used for these senses in English:
- dorm Clipping of dormitory.
- hibernate (intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
- hibernate (intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
- hibernation (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.
hibernate — full definition
- verb For an animal to spend winter in a dormant, low-energy state.
- verb For a computer to enter a power-saving mode that saves its current state to disk.