sleep mode
English
Noun
sleep mode (usually uncountable, plural sleep modes)
- (computing) the state of a computer system in which the drives and interfaces are switched off, and the only task running is monitoring external activity, particularly a key press which restores the system to its active state from the random access memory.
- Synonyms: standby, suspend to memory, suspend to RAM
- Coordinate term: hibernation (“a mode that completely powers off and restores from hard disk”)
Translations
state of a computer system
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