"Shutdown mode" refers to a state where something, like a device or system, is turned off or inactive. It means the regular operations or functions have stopped temporarily or permanently.
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Sentences with «shutdown mode»
- Unless Congress reaches an agreement by midnight on Monday (30 September), the U.S. government will go into shutdown mode and nonessential personnel at federal government institutions — that is, everyone not involved in animal care, patient care, national defense, or other functions deemed essential — will have an unplanned holiday. (sciencemag.org)
- Any financial modeler ought to bear unusual stressors in mind; either modelling the extreme effects themselves, or (as I prefer) fail - safe shutdown modes. (greenbackd.com)
- That's actually not true, the reason why we tend to be tired after we have a large meal of Thanksgiving is simply because of the amount of food that we're having we have what's called postprandial fatigue, which is basically after you've had a big meal your body goes into basically shutdown mode and sleep gets promoted. (businessinsider.com)
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