LOW TEMPERATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low temperature mean? 

• LOW TEMPERATURE (noun)
  The noun LOW TEMPERATURE has 1 sense:

1. the absence of heat

  Familiarity information: LOW TEMPERATURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW TEMPERATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The absence of heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cold; coldness; frigidity; frigidness; low temperature

Context example:

cold is a vasoconstrictor

Hypernyms ("low temperature" is a kind of...):

pressor; vasoconstrictive; vasoconstrictor (any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure)

temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "low temperature"):

chill; gelidity; iciness (coldness due to a cold environment)

chilliness; coolness; nip (the property of being moderately cold)

frostiness (coldness as evidenced by frost)

cool (the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature)

 Context examples 

Preservation of cells, tissues, organs, or embryos by storage at low temperatures.

(Cryopreservation, NCI Thesaurus)

A vial used to store specimens in a cryopreservative at very low temperatures.

(Cryovial, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms.

(Cryobiology, NCI Thesaurus)

Preservation of cells or genetic vectors by storage at low temperatures.

(Cell or Vector Cryopreservation, NCI Thesaurus)

Perovskites are cheap and easy to produce at low temperatures, which makes them attractive for next-generation solar cells and lighting.

(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)

Testing the device's characteristics when subjected to temperature change (cycling), and high or low temperatures.

(Device Temperature Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores.

(Gallium, NCI Thesaurus)

Tissues which are indefinitely maintained in a viable state at extremely low temperatures.

(Cryopreserved Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

Cells which are indefinitely maintained in a viable state at extremely low temperatures.

(Cryopreserved Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

For example, it now only works at extremely low temperatures of approximately 4 Kelvin, which corresponds to the temperature of liquid helium.

(Transistor that mimics neurons developed, SciDev.Net)