Definition of "quiesce" []

• Become quiet or quieter. (verb)
• To make temporarily inactive or disabled. (verb)

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• "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."
• "When a backup product requests a backup, it can tell VSS to "quiesce" these VSS-aware applications."
• "Because only at the source can you typically quiesce the application writing to the storage so that the snapshot will be a meaningful one."