Usually means: Periodic, prolonged torpor during winter.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. hibernation: Merriam-Webster
  2. hibernation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hibernation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hibernation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hibernation, hibernation: Wordnik
  6. hibernation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hibernation: Wiktionary
  8. hibernation: Dictionary.com
  9. hibernation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. hibernation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Hibernation (album), Hibernation (computing), Hibernation (spacecraft), Hibernation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Hibernation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. hibernation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. hibernation: Rhymezone
  15. Hibernation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. hibernation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. hibernation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hibernation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. hibernation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hibernation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. hibernation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. hibernation: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hibernation: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See hibernate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hibernation)

noun:  (biology, sleep) A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.
noun:  (biology, sleep, space science) A hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights.
noun:  (computing) A standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk.

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