Quiesce a. & n. : To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound.

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Taxonomy
Quiesce, IBM DB2, free encyclopedia, snapshot, z/OS, OS/390, queries, backup schemes, search, articles link, free dictionary, running processes, computer, application vendors, Livestate, VI3, VCB, Symantec.

Defination from the web:
quiesce in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... IBM DB2 supports a Quiesce command that is used to indicate a state for which all users have been locked out of a database or an instance (of ... See DB2 Quiesce Command ...