cryogenic
adjective
cryo·gen·ic
ˌkrī-ə-ˈje-nik 
1
a
: of or relating to the production of very low temperatures
b
: being or relating to very low temperatures
2
a
: requiring or involving the use of a cryogenic temperature
b
: requiring cryogenic storage
c
: suitable for storage of a cryogenic substance
Examples of cryogenic in a Sentence
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How much cryogenic methane and liquid oxygen will boil off in orbit?
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Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
The Case for Cryogenic Cooling Arnout Beckers and Alexander Grill are coauthors on the cryogenic cooling paper.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2023
The cryogenic sperm banks that freeze the specimen require extensive screening and testing for all donors.
—Sophie Strosberg, Parents, 26 Oct. 2023
The main three are steam treatment, cryogenic technologies, and heat guns—the goal being to kill bedbugs and their eggs using either very high or very low temperatures.
—Anne Pouzargues, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023
The test at Launch Pad 39-B looks to make sure repairs to fuel lines made since a scrub on Sept. 3 can support the more than 730,000 gallons of cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that needs to fow into the core stage as well as the upper Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage of SLS.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
Instead of pumping cryogenic fluids, scientists in Finland are developing purely electronic methods of refrigeration that could prove much smaller and simpler, while consuming 1/10th the power of today’s systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Sep. 2023
Hydrogen leaks typically show up only when the plumbing is exposed to cryogenic temperature — minus 423 degrees Fahrenheit in this case, Oxygen vapor billows from vents in the side of the Space Launch System rocket as propellants were loaded into the booster's upper stage.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2022
Then the rocket’s core stage detached and began an ignominious descent to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, leaving the crew capsule and the upper stage, called the interim cryogenic propulsion system (ICPS), to continue their journey.
—Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2022
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Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
The Case for Cryogenic Cooling Arnout Beckers and Alexander Grill are coauthors on the cryogenic cooling paper.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2023
The cryogenic sperm banks that freeze the specimen require extensive screening and testing for all donors.
—Sophie Strosberg, Parents, 26 Oct. 2023
The main three are steam treatment, cryogenic technologies, and heat guns—the goal being to kill bedbugs and their eggs using either very high or very low temperatures.
—Anne Pouzargues, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023
The test at Launch Pad 39-B looks to make sure repairs to fuel lines made since a scrub on Sept. 3 can support the more than 730,000 gallons of cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that needs to fow into the core stage as well as the upper Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage of SLS.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
Instead of pumping cryogenic fluids, scientists in Finland are developing purely electronic methods of refrigeration that could prove much smaller and simpler, while consuming 1/10th the power of today’s systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Sep. 2023
Hydrogen leaks typically show up only when the plumbing is exposed to cryogenic temperature — minus 423 degrees Fahrenheit in this case, Oxygen vapor billows from vents in the side of the Space Launch System rocket as propellants were loaded into the booster's upper stage.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2022
Then the rocket’s core stage detached and began an ignominious descent to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, leaving the crew capsule and the upper stage, called the interim cryogenic propulsion system (ICPS), to continue their journey.
—Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2022
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First Known Use
1896, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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Medical Definition
cryogenic
adjective
cryo·gen·ic
ˌkrī-ə-ˈjen-ik
1
a
: of or relating to the production of very low temperatures
b
: being or relating to very low temperatures
2
: requiring or involving the use of a cryogenic temperature
cryogenic surgery
cryogenic arterial thrombolysis
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