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Quiescence (/kwiˈɛsəns/) is a state of quietness or inactivity. It may refer to:
- Quiescence search, in game tree searching (adversarial search) in artificial intelligence, a quiescent state is one in which a game is considered stable and unlikely to change drastically the next few plays
- Seed dormancy, a form of delayed seed germination
- Quiescence, a type of dormancy in trees
- Quiescent phase, the first part of the first stage of childbirth
- The G0 phase of a cell in the cell cycle; quiescence is the state of a cell when it is not dividing
- Quiescent current (biasing) in an electronic circuit
- Quiescent consistency is one of the safety properties for concurrent data structures