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alt. a deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep. n. a deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
Usage examples of "coldsleep".
The trickle of life processes of a living Coldsleep subject generated sufficient heat to prevent frosting inside the capsule.
That was out of the three thousand and some odd colonists who had survived the coldsleep journey to this place, to stand under the light of an alien sun and commit themselves body and soul to building a new world.
Hefting their provisions, they made their way to the first level of the coldsleep storage facility where they, and the others Master Oldive had inducted to assist in the project, would attempt to understand the complexities of Thread.
Qeng Ho coldsleep boxes were so safe that the failure rate was a kind of statistical guess, at least under proper use and for spans of less than 4Gsec.
The forty-two mares brought in coldsleep by the colony were all in foal, and the nomads' leaders had accepted the fact that a mare's gestation period was eleven months on Pern as it had been on Earth.
The forty-two mares brought in coldsleep by the colony were all in foal, and the nomads leaders had accepted the fact that a mares gestation period was eleven months on Pern as it had been on Earth.
You might as well spend the time in coldsleep, she grumbled to herself, as try to act as if you were in coldsleep.
They carried first implementations of the improved ramdrives and coldsleep equipment.
The forty-two mares brought in coldsleep by the colony were all in foal, and the nomads´.
The forty-two mares brought in coldsleep by the colony were all in foal, and the nomads’.
Even with occasional coldsleep and the best medical technology in all Human Space, Sura Vinh was now insupportably old, five hundred years of life?
On single-crewed vessels the pilot would often use coldsleep, relying on the AI systems to handle the simple and tedious work of long interstellar transits.
And we don't even know if the person who ejected the pod sabotaged the airtanks or the coldsleep module, as well as the beacon.
She pushed aside the thought that sabotaging the entire coldsleep cabinet wouldn't have been that hard.
Ratcats will be thin on the ground for a while, except for the ones stored in coldsleep.