Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A robot device used for the exploration of masses of ice or areas trapped under ice, as of polar regions on Earth or ice-covered planets.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[cryo– + (ro)bot.]
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Examples
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A diapir was nothing more than a blob of warm ice, heated by the vents and gravitational hot zones far below, rising through the Epsom-salt sea toward the ice cap that had once covered 100 percent of Europa and which now, two thousand e-years after the cryobot arbeiter company arrived, still covered more than 98 percent of the moon.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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