1. An insulated container or device that maintains extremely low temperatures, typically using liquid nitrogen or helium.
Usage: technical; scientific
2. A thermostat designed to regulate and maintain temperatures at or near absolute zero for laboratory experiments.
Usage: technical; scientific

Examples

• The physicist placed the sample in the cryostat to cool it to near absolute zero.
• Modern cryostats use liquid helium to achieve temperatures below 10 Kelvin.
• The laboratory invested in a new cryostat for their quantum computing research.
• Cryostats are essential equipment in materials science and condensed matter physics.
• The cryostat maintained a stable temperature throughout the eight-hour experiment.
• Researchers used the cryostat to study the superconducting properties of the material.