CRYOGENIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cryogenic mean? 

• CRYOGENIC (adjective)
  The adjective CRYOGENIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to very low temperatures

  Familiarity information: CRYOGENIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRYOGENIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to very low temperatures

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

cryogen (a liquid that boils at below -160 C and is used as a refrigerant)

Derivation:

cryogenics (the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures)

 Context examples 

The procedure is performed using small cryogenic probes during surgery, and has recently been applied to solitary sporadic renal tumor lesions.

(Cryoablation, NCI Thesaurus)

The size can vary from that of a small thermos bottle up to that which may be mounted upon a large truck (also known as a 'cryogenic truck').

(Dewar, NCI Thesaurus)

A dosing unit equal to the amount of active ingredient(s) contained in a cryogenic ampule.

(Cryogenic Ampule Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

If Ceres had widespread cryovolcanic activity in the past — the eruption of volatiles such as water — these cryogenic materials also could have flowed across the surface, possibly burying pre-existing large craters.

(The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters, NASA)

According to DARPA, the XS-1 will be about the size of a business jet and take off vertically, propelled not by external boosters but by “self contained cryogenic propellants.”

(Hypersonic Space Plane May Soon Be a Reality, VOA)