Meaning

3 senses
  1. The combination of thermophysical, physiochemical, physiomechanical processes occurring in freezing and thawing earth materials.

  2. The geologic processes that create permafrost.

  3. The process of mediablasting a surface with dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide).

Origin

From cryo- + -genesis.

From cryo- + -genesis.

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Forms

plural: cryogeneses
Singularcryogenesis
Pluralcryogeneses

irregular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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