"sleep mode" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sleep mode.wav Forms: sleep modes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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 a key press which restores the system to its active state from the random access memory. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: standby, suspend to memory, suspend to RAM Translations (state of a computer system): وَضْع السُّكُون (waḍʕ as-sukūn) [masculine] (Arabic), 睡眠模式 (shuìmián móshì) (Chinese Mandarin), slaapstand [masculine] (Dutch), valmiustila (Finnish), lepotila (Finnish), mise en veille [feminine] (French), ძილის რეჟიმი (ʒilis režimi) (Georgian), Bereitschaftszustand [masculine] (German), modalità di sospensione [feminine] (Italian), 節電モード (setsuden mōdo) (alt: せつでんモード) (Japanese), スリープモード (surīpu mōdo) (Japanese), 절전 모드 (jeoljeon modeu) (Korean), dvalemodus [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dvalemodus [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), modo de espera [masculine] (Portuguese), modul de repaus [neuter] (Romanian), дежу́рный режи́м (dežúrnyj režím) [masculine] (Russian), режи́м ожида́ния (režím ožidánija) [masculine] (Russian), modo de suspensión [masculine] (Spanish), viloläge [neuter] (Swedish), uyku modu (Turkish)

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