Sentences with phrase «dormant period»

A "dormant period" refers to a time when something is inactive, asleep, or not active. It is like a resting or quiet period, where nothing much is happening. Full definition
In general, the scientists report, smaller tsunamis occur relatively close together, followed by long dormant periods, followed by great quakes and tsunamis, such as the one that struck in 2004.
The article, «Growth and development of two perennial grasses in ambient light conditions during their natural dormant period,» is published in Crop Science.
The first dormant period was 1965 -» 74, after the successive and successful releases of The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark in 1964.
Anestrus: This is the queen's reproductive dormant period.
The exhibition also features King's output since 2008, which follow a nearly twenty - year dormant period.
Following a lengthy dormant period, federal courts resurrected the ATS in the 1980s to grant federal jurisdiction over international human rights claims where both the plaintiff and defendant are of foreign origin.
In 1986 Harpoon was issued Brewing Permit # 001 by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, since it was the first brewery to brew commercially in Boston after a dormant period of about 25 years.
Incarceration represented a dormant period for men in terms of fatherhood, and reentry signified an opportunity to «start over» with their children.
This has significant implications for the way we monitor active and dormant volcanoes, suggesting that the signals we previously thought indicative of pre-eruptive activity — such as seismic activity or ground deformation — may in fact show the extension of a dormant period between eruptions.
It's been interesting to look at her work anew and think about why there is a dormant period,» Clark says.
With the residual presence of objects and sets haunting the space, the exhibition becomes a place to contemplate the dormant period between the making and the viewing of a film.
The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more - dormant period, with activity during the next 11 - year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated.
«Something is changing about this cycle; the ecosystems are becoming more productive, pulling in more atmospheric carbon during the summer and releasing more during the dormant period,» he says.
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