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postsleep

postsleep adjective: occurring after a period of sleep.

Adjective

postsleep (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after a period of sleep
    • Second, the subjects' performance on the task was improved in a postsleep retest session, suggesting that the influence of these reactivations, if any, was beneficial to memory traces.2001 November 2, Pierre Maquet, “The Role of Sleep in Learning and Memory”, in Science, volume 294, number 5544, →DOI, pages 1048–1052

Origin of postsleep

From post- + sleep.

Questions about postsleep

What does postsleep mean?
Postsleep means occurring after a period of sleep.
What part of speech is postsleep?
Postsleep is an adjective.

Words near postsleep in the dictionary

  1. postshower
  2. postsimulation
  3. postsingularity
  4. postsinusoidal
  5. postslavery
  6. postsleep
  7. postslope
  8. postsnap
  9. postsocial
  10. postsocialism
  11. postsocialist

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