At last he turned himself down to standby state, and this was very like sleep.

The machines would be in a standby state, drawing a much lower level of power.

"No, sir, but it must have been one of the devices we noted previously, one of those that were in some kind of standby state.

BM Start-Up: mainstream major generation units maintained in either an energy readiness or hot standby state.

This is done using halt instructions to turn off or put in standby state CPU subparts that aren't being used or by underclocking the CPU.

By the time it registered with me that the robots were in some sort of standby state, and thus in good condition to be attacked, it was too late to do anything about it.

In case there are more than two members, the second best AVG is placed in the Standby state and all other members are placed in the Listening state.