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Have you heard of "quiesce" used as a verb? The sentence I'm editing
reads:
"... must be bracketed by MB instructions to quiesce the memory
system.
The Istream must also be quiesced before and during the sequence."
<raised eyebrow>
No... and neither have any of my dictionaries.
Acquiesce, yes (to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively).
Queue, yes (a sequence of messages or jobs held in auxiliary storage
awaiting transmission or processing; a data structure that consists of a
list of records such that records are added at one end and removed from the
other).
Quiescence (n) The quality or state of being quiescent.
Quiescent (n) 1. Marked by inactivity or repose: tranquilly at rest. 2.
Causing no trouble or symptoms.
I wonder what the author of those words meant!! Do you have any way of
asking her/him?
