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hybernation

hybernation is the obsolete spelling of hibernation.

Meaning of hibernation

Noun

hibernation (countable and uncountable, plural hibernations)

  1. (sleep) A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.
    • The bears are in hibernation.
  2. (sleep) A hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights.
  3. A standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk.
    Synonyms:
    suspension to disk

Forms of hybernation

pluralhybernations

Questions about hybernation

What is hybernation the obsolete spelling of?
Hybernation is the obsolete spelling of hibernation.

Words near hybernation in the dictionary

  1. hybernacles
  2. hybernate
  3. hybernated
  4. hybernates
  5. hybernating
  6. hybernation
  7. hybernations
  8. Hybla
  9. Hyblaean
  10. Hyblaean Mountains
  11. Hyblaeans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hybernation (page history and authors); hibernation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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