A sleeping sickness caused by protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei, prevalent in tropical Africa.

Kleine-Levin syndrome

present participle of eat, breathe, and sleep

plural of sleeping barber problem

(computing theory) A problem of interprocess communication and synchronization where one process responds to requests from multiple other threads and sleeps when not doing so. In some cases this may lead to an undesirable state where components are waiting for each other despite being ready.

(simile) Synonym of sleep like a log

(biblical and literary, dated or obsolete) To be buried together with one's forebears; hence, to die; also, to be dead.

plural of Sleeping Beauty problem

In decision theory, a kind of puzzle in which whenever an ideally rational epistemic agent is awoken from sleep, it has no memory of whether it has been awoken before. Upon being told that it has been woken once or twice according to the toss of a coin, once if heads and twice if tails, it is asked its degree of belief for the coin having come up heads.

(computing theory) A certain unsupervised learning algorithm for neural networks, having separate "wake" and "sleep" phases that attempt to connect the layers of neurons in alternating directions.