relaxation

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There's a point where you don't care much about the job, all you want to do is go home and perform $favorite_mindless_relaxation.

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Quick take

(physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of relaxation gathered in one view.

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(physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

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(physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance

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a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry; "the easiness we feel when sleeping"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for relaxation.

noun

(physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

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(physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance

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a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry; "the easiness we feel when sleeping"

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an occurrence of control or strength weakening; "the relaxation of requirements"; "the loosening of his grip"; "the slackening of the wind"

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freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

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a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount

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the act of making less strict

Example sentences

There's a point where you don't care much about the job, all you want to do is go home and perform $favorite_mindless_relaxation.

The more demanding the cognitive task, the more important sleep and relaxation are.

I will be the first one to admit it, I do occasionally play games as a means to relaxation and I bought StarCraft 2 yesterday.

I think it's more accurate to say that breakthroughs come from periods of intense work & study interspersed with relaxation.

It is interesting enough for me to forget the work stuff, and dull enough to induce me into a deeper relaxation state, which allows me to fall sleep fast.

But if you are searching for white noise/pink noise/relaxation/relax/sleep/dreaming/rest/calm/tranquil/tranquility/peaceful you're guaranteed to encounter one of his apps.

I like the hypothesis the article presents: focusing on working intently hard, followed by relaxation and you will perform better.

I suppose one of the advantages of the sandboxing is it might lead to a relaxation of the rules around installing other software on corporate machines.

We basically want our models to coordinate with the actual heartbeat at only two exact moments, during the beginning of contraction and relaxation.

Restaurants are places of relaxation, company, discovery, beautiful foods.

Usually, we sit on the couch, take the coffee together and then every person takes a newspaper or magazine and after a few minutes of pseudo-reading everybody is sleeping or in a state of deep relaxation.

Likewise for playing video games or hiking in the woods or listening to rock-and-roll or producing reality-TV shows or most any other activity you can name whose main goal is relaxation, entertainment, escape from life's burdens, or just plain self-indulgence.

"The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws.