Definition of "quiescent" in English

adjective

1. Inactive, quiet, at rest.

   • The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.
   • In times of national security, the feeling of Patriotism among the masses is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist—in their case national glory or national danger awakens it, and it leaps up armed cap-a-pie.

2. (orthography) Not sounded; silent.

   • The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".

3. (cytology) Non-proliferating.