Usually means: Cease activity; become quiet, still.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. quiesce: Merriam-Webster
  2. quiesce: Collins English Dictionary
  3. quiesce: Vocabulary.com
  4. quiesce: Wordnik
  5. quiesce: Wiktionary
  6. Quiesce, quiesce: Dictionary.com
  7. Quiesce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Quiesce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. quiesce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. quiesce: Rhymezone
  11. Quiesce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. quiesce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. quiesce: FreeDictionary.org
  14. quiesce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Quiesce: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quiesce: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. quiesce: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See quiesces as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (quiesce)

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

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