coldsleep

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it

   A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.

   • By converting some of the recreation space to storerooms and adapting the storerooms thus cleared to the purpose of cold-sleep, the ship was roomy enough.
   • He had always believed Arcadia lovely, an undespoiled planet waiting for man like a bride, more than worth decades in coldsleep aboard a spaceship, toil and danger of pioneering, isolation from the rest of humankind.
2. 2

   To experience deep sleep whilst the body is stored at a very cold temperature

   To experience deep sleep whilst the body is stored at a very cold temperature; to engage in cryogenic sleep.

   • Damnation, he was quite capable of refusing to let me cold-sleep.
   • The escape capsule in which he'd cold-slept had had another minor malfunction that left him staring drugged and half conscious through the port glass at open space for two days before the cryogenic process had kicked in.

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