sleep mode

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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”)

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