spin down (English, verb)
expansion: spin down (third-person singular simple present spins down, present participle spinning down, simple past and past participle spun down)
Senses:
glosses: To reduce its speed of rotation.
raw_tags: of a rotating body
glosses: To diminish in energy; to slow down or peter out; to be gradually canceled or ended.
tags: figuratively
glosses: To decline in resources or capability.
tags: figuratively
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To reduce its spinning speed from that required for reading and writing.
tags: intransitive
raw_tags: of a disk drive
Forms:
form: spins down
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spinning down
tags: participle
present
form: spun down
tags: participle
past
form: spun down
tags: past