cryogenic

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Recent Examples of cryogenic Spain’s base camp in Donaueschingen has a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, a cryogenic chamber, and a phototherapy bed to help speed muscular recovery after practice or a game. James Robson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024 Highlights of SpaceX's launch manifest this year will likely include an attempt to catch and recover Starship after returning from orbit, a first in-orbit cryogenic propellant transfer demonstration with Starship, and perhaps the debut of a second launch pad at Starbase in South Texas. Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025 Researchers must use cryogenic refrigerators, which can cool superconducting qubits to within thousandths of a degree above absolute zero, to provide an ultracold, dark, and quiet environment for operation. Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 To maintain the delicate quantum states of their qubits, they must be cooled to near absolute zero—colder than outer space—using advanced cryogenic systems. Sandy Carter, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for cryogenic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cryogenic
Adjective
  • The combination allows for quick-trigger photography without constantly removing gloves in subzero temperatures and helps negate the danger of an iPhone being found at the bottom of the sea, centuries from now.
    Ryan Craggs, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2025
  • In addition to snow, some areas experienced several days of subzero temperatures.
    Brandon Girod, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Its infrared sensors, its ultracold location in space, and its sunshield — which blocks the light of the sun, moon and Earth — are uniquely suited to resolve the first galaxies and their stars.
    Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Their experiments involved shooting photons through a cloud of ultracold rubidium atoms and measuring the resulting degree of atomic excitation.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Kansas City officials recommend that residents keep a thin stream of water flowing from their faucets during freezing temperatures.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The governor warned that an incoming storm would bring dangerous travel conditions and freezing temperatures, adding to an already severe situation.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Last week, the metro was in the icy grasp of an arctic blast that brought record-breaking cold to the metro.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The arctic air will seep south over the central and southern Plains next week and will even reach into the South, including in Oklahoma City, Nashville and Atlanta, Weather.com said.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The upcoming offseason is the polar opposite of 2024 due to several factors.
    Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • There are signs that another stretching of the polar vortex or shift in the polar jet stream will take place at the end of February and into the first half of March, AccuWeather said.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Her makeup, too, was equally icy, with a metallic silvery-white shadow brushed under her brow as a highlight and dramatic black eyeliner winged all the way out to the outer corner of her brows, plus a pair of light blue-gray contacts enhanced by majorly fluttery, lush lashes.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 9 Dec. 2024
  • White cautioned those traveling north of Indianapolis this weekend, however, should be mindful of potentially snowier, icier road conditions.
    Christopher Cann, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Like the old adage about waiting a long time for a bus only to have three show up at once, Dries Van Noten — nearly glacial in the past regarding store openings — has four in the cards this year.
    Miles Socha, WWD, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The family felt the e-commerce giant was a poor home for the elegant secret agent and bristled at its efforts to expand the scope of the franchise, while Amazon executives were frustrated by the glacial pace of getting a new film off the ground, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This will act to push colder air back into portions of the Lower 48 states.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2025
  • In 2016, Phoenix PD’s Cold Case Homicide Unit decided to conduct a full review of what had become the department’s oldest cold case.
    Dawn Sawyer, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025

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