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cold sleep

cold sleep is the alternative form of coldsleep.

Meaning of coldsleep

Noun

coldsleep (uncountable)

  1. A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
    • By converting some of the recreation space to storerooms and adapting the storerooms thus cleared to the purpose of cold-sleep, the ship was roomy enough.1941 August, Robert A. Heinlein, “Methuselah's Children”, in John W. Campbell, editor, Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 6

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Synonyms of cold sleep

Questions about cold sleep

What is cold sleep the alternative form of?
Cold sleep is the alternative form of coldsleep.

Words near cold sleep in the dictionary

  1. cold shoulders
  2. cold shower
  3. cold showers
  4. cold shut
  5. cold shuts
  6. cold sleep
  7. cold sleeper
  8. cold sleepers
  9. cold smoking
  10. cold snap
  11. cold snaps

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