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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to low temperatures.
  • adjective Requiring or suitable to cryogenic storage.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Producing cold; especially, noting an apparatus or a laboratory for experimenting at the extreme low temperatures which may be produced by the evaporation of liquefied ethylene, air, oxygen, or hydrogen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, relating to, or performed at low temperatures

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

  • adjective of or relating to very low temperatures

Etymologies

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cryo- + -genic

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