Definitions

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  • adjective Very cold; having an extreme cold.

Etymologies

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From super- +‎ cold

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Examples

  • But do not do supercold temps: That causes the baby to shiver and raise the temperature more than is helpful to fight infection, as shivering generates unneeded heat.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • But do not do supercold temps: That causes the baby to shiver and raise the temperature more than is helpful to fight infection, as shivering generates unneeded heat.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Understanding of this phenomenon will come from experiments conducted in the areas of atomic physics (supercold atoms) and condensed matter (electrons in quantum dots).

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • But do not do supercold temps: That causes the baby to shiver and raise the temperature more than is helpful to fight infection, as shivering generates unneeded heat.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • But do not do supercold temps: That causes the baby to shiver and raise the temperature more than is helpful to fight infection, as shivering generates unneeded heat.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Approximately 535,000 gallons of supercold liquid oxygen (LOX, minus 298 deg F) and liquid hydrogen (LH2, minus 423 deg F ) are loaded from storage tanks around the pad to the shuttles mobile launch platform and is nearly complete as of 7 AM.

    Tweeters and Atlantis Ready for Launch | Universe Today 2009

  • Maris and Wei Guo, a doctoral student, took advantage of the bubbles that form around electrons in supercold liquid helium.

    Researchers Catch Motion of a Single Electron on Video | Impact Lab 2007

  • UC Berkeley physicist Richard Packard and grad student Emile Hoskinson managed to hear the quantum vibrations, known as quantum whistles, of a supercold condensed fluid as it's pushed through an array of tiny holes 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

    Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Maris and Wei Guo, a doctoral student, took advantage of the bubbles that form around electrons in supercold liquid helium.

    Researchers Catch Motion of a Single Electron on Video | Impact Lab 2007

  • But supercold temperatures do strange things with physics.

    01.04 M-mv 2004

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