This was called the idle condition, and the plate current at this point the " idle current ".

# The condition that exists when a telephone or other user instrument is not in use, i. e., when idle waiting for a call.

It gained brief fame as the last place in the continental United States to use a trunking system ( inter-office circuits ) that was called " N2 Carrier ", an analog system that utilized Multi-Frequency ( MF ) tones and the infamous 2600 Hz control tone for answer supervision and idle trunk condition.

" He responds to the anguish of his condition with an outcast's credo: " I am determined to prove a villain / And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

* Keepalive time is the duration between two keepalive transmissions in idle condition.

After a 7, 000 feet per minute dive with engines in a flight idle or near flight idle condition, the plane crashed at about 03: 45 local time ( 07: 45 UTC ) into a field on a cattle ranch near Machiques, in the western Zulia State, Venezuela ( about 30 kilometres from the Colombian border ).

As the throttle is closed, the airflow through the venturi drops until the lowered pressure is insufficient to maintain this fuel flow, and the idle circuit takes over again, as described above.

This circuit works exactly like the idle circuit, and when engaged it simply supplies extra fuel when the throttle is closed.

It can be in: standby ( the circuit is idle ), reading ( the data has been requested ) and writing ( updating the contents ).

The induction motor equivalent circuit when idle is approximately, which is mostly reactive.

In two-way radio use, an idle circuit would normally have no current present.

) A computer processor or communication circuit is described as idle when it is not being used by any program, application or message.

The 49-state model of the CEC has no on-board diagnostic system, making it difficult to monitor the computer's operation without a breakout box, and the Carter BBD carburetor on most CEC-equipped models has problems with its idle circuit clogging, causing rough idle and stalling.

* An idler circuit is used in parametric amplifiers to generate an idle response.

If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia.

Achilles, like Siegfried in The Nibelungenlied, is potentially the swiftest of men and may accordingly be called swift-footed even when he stands idle.

In determining the extent to which any poem is formulaic it is idle, however, to inspect nothing besides lines repeated in their entirety, for a stock of line-fragments would be sufficient to permit the poet to extemporize with deftness if they provided for prosodic needs.

It is idle to ask why we are no longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, decides anew that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the water into wine at eleven A.M. on the third of August, A.D. 32.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

When the system is idle, the CPU clocks itself down via lower bus multiplier and selects a lower voltage.

:: is idle, biologically speaking.

At idle ( no input ), the power consumption is essentially the same as at high output volume.

He realised that with most printing telegraphs of the period the line is idle for most of the time, apart from the brief intervals when a character is transmitted.

Gossip is idle talk or rumour about the personal or private affairs of others.

This term is used pejoratively by its reputation for the introduction of errors and variations into the information transmitted, and it also describes idle chat, a rumor of personal, or trivial nature.

" The word " trick " refers to a ( mostly idle ) " threat " to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given.

If any one of the sides makes the bung reach that end of the churchyard it is victorious .” The actual word hockey was mentioned centuries before, in 1363, when King Edward III of England issued a declaration banning a list of games: " moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

Wait until the lift is idle

* In the 2008 video game LittleBigPlanet, the titular planet is described in terms similar to a noosphere — that is, it is the physical manifestation of idle human thoughts.

Thus, when essential sacred mysteries and teachings are described as myth, in modern English, the word often still implies that it is " idle fancy, fiction, or falsehood ".

" Similarly, Irenaeus wrote that the Christian " will not be commanded to leave idle one day of rest, who is constantly keeping sabbath ", and Tertullian argued " that we still more ought to observe a sabbath from all servile work always, and not only every seventh-day, but through all time ".

* Thomas Palmer — the husband of Charlotte Palmer who is running for a seat in Parliament, but is idle and often rude.

The presence of continuous noise on an idle channel creates a DC voltage which turns the receiver audio off.

Furthermore, machines broke down more frequently both because they were used by workers not familiar with them, and because no maintenance could be performed on machines that were never idle in factories with continuous schedules ( 24-hours / day every day ).

In an RS232 interface, an idle connection has a continuous negative voltage applied.

* An idle speed that is too fast can leave the engine with too much angular momentum upon shutdown, raising the chances that the engine can turn over and burn more fuel and lock itself into a cycle of continuous running.

In a public switched telephone network, busy verification: is a network-provided service feature that permits an attendant to verify the busy or idle state of station lines and to break into the conversation.

# The idle state, i. e., an open loop of a subscriber line or PBX user loop.

The SF tone is present in the on-hook or idle state and absent during the seized state.

The idle, no data state is high-voltage, or powered.

If the data line is not in the expected idle state when the " stop " bit is expected, a Framing Error will occur.

At a minimum, this state identifies the output channel of the current node for the next hop of the route and the state of the virtual channel ( idle, waiting for resources, or active ).

# P < sub > a </ sub >' s header flit arrives at N < sub > 2 </ sub >' s West input VC, which happens to be in the idle state, so assuming we can buffer two flits, P < sub > a </ sub >' s header flit and first body flit are buffered.

He said " the highlanders have remained in their ancient state, prolific, bold, idle, & consequently hives of rebellion ".

When one of the cores is idle, it will enter a " doze " state and shut down.

The system maintained a list of machines and their state, and would automatically move processes to idle machines to improve local performance.

A secular atheist, Olson was disturbed by the state legislature's passage of two bills in 1941, one to give free transportation to students attending Catholic schools, while the other would release Catholic children from public schools in the middle of the school day in order to attend catechism, leaving the schools and other students idle until the Catholic students ' return.

A ' zero ' bit is represented as a positive voltage difference with respect to the Signal Ground and a ' one ' bit is a negative voltage with respect to signal ground, thus indistinguishable from the idle state.

Typically, when one describes a machine as idle, it is an objective statement regarding its current state.

The state of being idle is sometimes even celebrated with a few books on the subject of idleness.

Since the idle threads are always in a Ready state ( if not already Running ), this can never happen.

When no word line is active, the array is idle and the bit lines are held in a precharged state, with a voltage halfway between high and low.

Through this period of turmoil Jai Singh remained in his own state — but he was not idle.

# First, the SDRAM is in an idle state.

In the idle state, no lights were lit.

An integrated multi-storeyed parking facility with two basements and above-ground floors that will house omnibuses and idle parking for buses of various state transport corporations in a 4-acre vacant site opposite the existing omnibus terminus for private buses.

Many rear-handled chainsaws are used in a state, owing to poor maintenance, where there is some clutch drag and so the chain does move slowly at idle.

Some of the responsibilities include issuing bonds and notes for the state, and trustee, registrar and paying agent for all general obligation bonds and certain revenue bonds investment of temporarily idle state money.