cryostat.

An apparatus that maintains a substance or device at a very low, controlled temperature.

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Words that belong together

• laboratory cryostat
• cryostat chamber

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The detector remained inside its insulated cryostat.

Frost gathered near the cryostat’s leaking seal.

Usage notes

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