sleep modes

A form of sleep mode — 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 awaiting a keypress which restores the system to its active state from the random access memory.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of sleep mode
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