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cryocooler.

Noun
Sci-FiSettingTechnical
MEANING

A refrigeration device designed to reach and maintain very low cryogenic temperatures.

Use it for

cooling infrared sensors; keeping a detector at cryogenic temperature; a low-temperature machine that needs power; cooling hardware whose vibration affects measurements

Words that belong together

  • a cryocooler stage
  • a mechanical cryocooler
  • cryocooler vibration

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The cryocooler's vibration reached the detector through a bracket no one had thought to isolate.
When the cryocooler failed, the infrared instrument's background noise began to rise.

Related words

cryogenic refrigerationcryogenicscold head
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cryocooler

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Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular cryocooler; plural cryocoolers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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