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cryogenic

[krahy-uh-jen-ik]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the production or use of very low temperatures.

    cryogenic storage.

  2. of or relating to cryogenics.



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Other Word Forms

  • cryogenically adverb
  • cryogenist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cryogenic1

First recorded in 1895–1900; cryo- + -genic
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Example Sentences

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The cells were cryogenically frozen within hours to be sent to Australia, where Luke was waiting.

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The facility was well-secured, he said, with cameras on every corner and facing the chained cryogenic equipment.

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There’s silliness — one production involved a cryogenically frozen Swedish rapper — and the overall tone is one of joviality, the belief that art in the early 21st century should be increasingly interactive and playable.

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Thinking about immortality, the question is whether the consciousness that might be created in my cryogenically preserved brain in the future would be my consciousness, or a new consciousness that merely resembled mine.”

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Cryo-electron tomography is an imaging technique that takes 2D images of cryogenically frozen samples at multiple tilt angles to reconstruct three-dimensional volumes of biological samples.

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