involving or denoting a method of preserving food by partial cooking followed by vacuum-sealing and chilling: [as adjective]:a convection oven can be used in sous vide operations [as adverb]:cooking sous vide
noun
[mass noun]
the sous vide method of preserving food:gourmet quality meals are ready in a snap using a cooking technology called sous vide
Origin:
French, literally 'under vacuum'
sous vide in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of sous vide in the US English dictionary