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LOW TEMPERATURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The absence of heat
Example:
cold is a vasoconstrictor
Synonyms:
cold; coldness; frigidity; frigidness; low temperature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("low temperature" is a kind of...):
pressor; vasoconstrictive; vasoconstrictor (any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure)
temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "low temperature"):
chill; gelidity; iciness (coldness due to a cold environment)
chilliness; coolness; nip (the property of being moderately cold)
frostiness (coldness as evidenced by frost)
cool (the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature)
Context examples:
The specimen is frozen and then dehydrated at low temperature in a high vacuum.
(Freeze-Drying, NCI Thesaurus)
The inside of the container often has a coating (as silvering) on the inside to reduce heat transfer, and is used especially for storing liquified gases or for experiments at low temperatures.
(Dewar, NCI Thesaurus)
A type of atomic spectroscopy capable of qualitatively or quantitatively determining certain cations (particularly Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ca, Ba, Cu) by utilizing a low temperature flame capable of exciting a valence electron to an upper energy state which emits light at a wavelength unique to each cation as the electron returns to its ground state.
(Flame Photometry, NCI Thesaurus)
