"period" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sleep is a quiescent period where the cells are doing a lot of repairing.
- A 10-year quiescent period followed; then in 1849, Herschel noted another short cycle of variability, which peaked in 1852.
- The concert comes at a time when Mr. Garfunkel, after a quiescent period, has projects on the table.
- Initially Jamey had appeared to grow sedate, the quiescent periods ranging from a few days to one or two weeks at a time.
- Realizing he will soon have no control over his own body and mind, Cory devises a plan to destroy the brain during its quiescent period.
- This mite experiences a quiescent period prior to each moulting, during which it does not eat.
- Kirk then ordered a probe, modified to reverse course instantly and return through the gates, launched during one of the gate's so-called quiescent periods.
- There was only an indistinct grayness, like the surface of the gate during its supposedly quiescent period.
- The resultant quiescent periods are known as aestivation and hibernation respectively.
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