cold sleep
See also: coldsleep
English
Noun
cold sleep (uncountable)
- Alternative form of coldsleep
- 1957, Heinlein, Robert A., The Door Into Summer, →ISBN:
- I hesitated, then added, "I'm going to take the Long Sleep. The cold sleep—you know what I mean."
- 1998 May 15, Niven, Larry, Destiny's Road, →ISBN:
- Half a thousand colonists had left Sol system in cold sleep, with twenty crew.
- 2004, Turtledove, Harry, Homeward Bound, →ISBN:
- 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.
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Synonyms
- suspended animation