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cryostat

[ krahy-uh-stat ]

noun

  1. an apparatus, usually automatic, maintaining a very low constant temperature.


cryostat

/ ˈkraɪəˌstæt /

noun

  1. an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature or a vessel in which a substance is stored at a low temperature
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • cryo·static adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cryostat1

First recorded in 1910–15; cryo- + -stat
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Example Sentences

Still, in 2019 Wilson and colleagues demonstrated that they could generate entangled microwaves and use them to detect an object within the same cryostat, as they reported in March 2019 in Applied Physics Letters.

Among the components being assembled is the 30-metre-diameter cryostat, manufactured by India, which surrounds the reactor and keeps it at the extremely low temperature required.

Superconducting qubits need to be cooled to near absolute zero, in a device called a cryostat that fills a small room.

ScienceInsider spoke with Bigot this week as the cryostat base still hovered over the tokamak pit on the end of a crane.

But the cryostat was not ready to be closed.

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