Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to low temperatures.
- adjective Requiring or suitable to cryogenic storage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing cold; especially, noting an apparatus or a laboratory for experimenting at the extreme low temperatures which may be produced by the evaporation of liquefied ethylene, air, oxygen, or hydrogen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or performed at
low temperatures
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to very low temperatures
Etymologies
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Examples
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Episode Recaps: In “Space Seed,” the Enterprise encounters Khan Noonien Singh, a genetically modified human from the 21st century who fled Earth and put himself in cryogenic hibernation.
5 Lessons Tiger Woods Could’ve Learned from Watching Star Trek | Fandomania 2010
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No “do not suspend” order on file, so he was placed in cryogenic suspension.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Unfortunately, the ship crash lands on the planet, leaving its meager crew to search for a suitable home for the colonists (what's left of them) who wait it out in cryogenic freeze.
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No “do not suspend” order on file, so he was placed in cryogenic suspension.
365 tomorrows » Cryoshift : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Then we can listen to figures who have been in cryogenic suspension since the 1970s.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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Then we can listen to figures who have been in cryogenic suspension since the 1970s.
May 2005 2005
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Then we can listen to figures who have been in cryogenic suspension since the 1970s.
It doesn't impress me and it won't impress the examiners 2005
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Long-term cryogenic storage costs about $125 per year.
azcentral.com | news Parker Leavitt 2010
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Long-term cryogenic storage costs about $125 per year.
azcentral.com | news Parker Leavitt 2010
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When democrats leave office their problems are stored in cryogenic ice freezers in space so that when the good old republican days are over they’re waiting for the next democrat (sic) president.
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