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Cryogenics

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The production of low temperatures or the study of low-temperature phenomena. Also called cryogeny.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the science and technology of the production of very low temperatures

n. the scientific study of low temperature phenomena

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures

Word Usage

"In fact, there are some people who even believe we can solve the problem of death through technology -- I think it's called cryogenics -- so that even that ultimate problem that human beings have always had to deal with and which our religious systems had always confronted."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

physics natural philosophy

Cross Reference

cryonics

Form

cryogenic cryogen