A mixture, as of pounded ice and salt, producing cold sufficient to freeze a liquid by the rapid absorption of heat.

present participle of snap freeze

The process whereby objects are frozen in a few hours by subjecting them to cryogenic temperatures, or through direct contact with liquid nitrogen.

Rain which freezes upon contact.

(literally) Suffering or causing frost / (by extension, chiefly hyperbolic) Very cold / (with above or below) Zero °C, the freezing point of water.

(uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. / (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.

present participle of freeze

(physics, chemistry) The temperature at which a liquid freezes, and the solid and liquid phases are in equilibrium; normally the same as the melting point.

(idiomatic) extremely and unpleasantly cold

(idiomatic) extreme and unpleasant cold