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S vs Quiescence - What's the difference?

s | quiescence |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun quiescence is

the state of being quiescent; dormancy.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    quiescence

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
  • Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
  • The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
  • *1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
  • *:I pray you, Salviatus, to tell me ... the cause of the Pendulum's quiescence .
  • (microbiology) When a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.

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