dormant: значение и определения
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Lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive.
Latent but capable of being activated: "a harrowing experience which . . . lay dormant but still menacing” ( Charles Jackson).
Temporarily quiescent: a dormant volcano. See Synonyms at inactive, latent.
In a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes.