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cold sleep en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of coldsleep.
Anyone who worked on cold sleep for humans would have to know about what the Lizards did so they could fly between the stars without getting old on the way.
2004, Harry Turtledove, Homeward Bound, →ISBN:Half a thousand colonists had left Sol system in cold sleep, with twenty crew.
1998 May 15, Larry Niven, Destiny's Road, →ISBN:I hesitated, then added, "I'm going to take the Long Sleep. The cold sleep—you know what I mean."
1957, Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer, →ISBN:
Synonyms
suspended animation