Definition of "dormant" in İngilizce

adjective

1. Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

   • Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
   • The bank account was dormant; there had been no transactions in months.
   • This volcano is dormant but not extinct.

2. (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.

   • a lion dormant

3. (architecture) Leaning.

noun

1. (architecture) A crossbeam or joist.