deep sleep en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see deep, sleep.
- (countable, uncountable) stage 3 of non-rapid eye movement sleep
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(countable, rare, uncountable) Artificially induced hibernation in humans for the purpose of long distance space travel.
There is also the possibility that our aliens perfected cryogenics and simply went into deep sleep until the environment improved.
2008, Cavin Wright, The Golden Prize, →ISBN, page 17:Donnchadh and Gwalcmai, along with the other fourteen teams selected for planetary infiltration, had been put into deep sleep shortly after liftoff from their planet.
2004, Robert Doherty, Area 51: Legend, →ISBN:The Kironian had remained in deep sleep until alerted by a high-pitched squeaky sound. When the Kironian woke, everything seemed as though it had just left Kiron.
2005, Bob Ticer, Visiting the Strange Planet Called Earth, →ISBN, page 13:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| deep sleeps | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (12)
pl twardy sen (medicine: state of sleep) · fi syvä uni (medicine: state of sleep) · de Tiefschlaf (medicine: state of sleep) · fi syvä uni (fiction: artificial hibernation) · vi ngủ sâu (medicine: state of sleep) · mi moe rotu (medicine: state of sleep) · grc κῶμα (medicine: state of sleep) · sv djupsömn (medicine: state of sleep) · es dormición profunda (medicine: state of sleep) · ar نَوْم عَمِيق (medicine: state of sleep) · fr sommeil profond (medicine: state of sleep) · es sueño pesado (medicine: state of sleep)