1 to (cause to) stop operating or being in service, either temporarily or permanently: --
2 closed: --
3 to close something: --
5 if a store, restaurant, or public place shuts or someone shuts it, it stops being open for business at the end of the day, week, etc.: --
In a real application of this system, the failed component can be shut down when a failure is detected.
Once the failures are detected, the appropriate aligner can be shut down and serviced.
In our approach, the only way for firms to avoid their obligations to workers and/or the fund is by shutting down.
But he encases it in yet another closed movement that shuts away his name, which is his body.
The present results indicate that a step is a single photon response with an aberrant long-lasting shut-off mechanism.
Other residents, though, had experienced a shutting down of their previous contacts as their life became more centred on the home.
Thus, indigenous peoples often referred to a history that had led to their marginal position and to their being shut out of decision-making.
The exponential distribution of step durations suggests that the shut-off of activated rhodopsin under these conditions is rate limited by a single first-order process.