sleep mode

English

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Noun

sleep mode (usually uncountable, plural sleep modes)

1. (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 awaiting a keypress 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

Arabic: وَضْع السُّكُون m (waḍʕ as-sukūn) Chinese: Mandarin: 睡眠模式 (shuìmián móshì) Dutch: slaapstand (nl) m Finnish: valmiustila (fi), lepotila (fi) French: mise en veille (fr) f Georgian: ძილის რეჟიმი (ʒilis režimi) German: Bereitschaftszustand m Italian: modalità di sospensione f Japanese: 節電モード (せつでんモード, setsuden mōdo), スリープモード (surīpu mōdo) Korean: 절전 모드 (jeoljeon modeu) Norwegian: Bokmål: dvalemodus m Nynorsk: dvalemodus m Portuguese: modo de espera m Romanian: modul de repaus n Russian: дежу́рный режи́м m (dežúrnyj režím), режи́м ожида́ния m (režím ožidánija) Spanish: modo de suspensión m Swedish: viloläge n Turkish: uyku modu