Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or produced by a glacier.
- adjective Extremely slow, like the movement of a glacier.
- adjective Characterized or dominated by the existence of glaciers. Used of a geologic epoch.
- adjective Pleistocene.
- adjective Extremely cold; icy: synonym: cold.
- adjective Having the appearance of ice.
- adjective Lacking warmth and friendliness.
- adjective Coldly detached.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Icy; consisting of ice; frozen; hence, resembling ice; figuratively, having a cold, glassy look or manner.
- In geology, referring to ice; associated with the geological agency of ice.
- Of or relating to a glacier or an ice-sheet.
- In chem., assuming the solid state as a result of concentration: used chiefly of certain acids (as acetic, sulphuric, and phosphoric acids) which are commonly seen as liquids but solidify at low temperatures when concentrated by removal of water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers.
- adjective (Chem.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds.
- adjective (Chem.) an acid of such strength or purity as to crystallize at an ordinary temperature, in an icelike form; as acetic or carbolic acid.
- adjective (Geol.) earth and rocks which have been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs; bowlder drift.
- adjective (Geol.) a period during which the climate of the modern temperate regions was polar, and ice covered large portions of the northern hemisphere to the mountain tops.
- adjective (Geol.) See Glacier theory, under
Glacier .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to
glaciers - adjective figuratively very
slow - adjective
cold andicy - adjective having the
appearance ofice - adjective
cool andunfriendly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or derived from a glacier
- adjective devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
- adjective extremely cold
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I would be interested for your explanation of atmospheric gas bubbles and volcanic ash in glacial ice.
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I would be interested for your explanation of atmospheric gas bubbles and volcanic ash in glacial ice.
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So while we may be seeing a gradual sea rise due to glacial melt, once the glacial is gone, things may get hot fast.
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So while we may be seeing a gradual sea rise due to glacial melt, once the glacial is gone, things may get hot fast.
Veniceblog: 2006
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This may be spurious conclusion if you superimpose the jökulhlaup observation on a continuous long term glacial retreat since the end of the last ice age of the non-little variety.
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On cooling from the fused state it forms a glassy solid, and on this account is often called glacial phosphoric acid.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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I use it to put current climate change into perspective, but also also to make the point that small changes in the earth’s temperature can be dramatic – in particular, the graph indicates that the difference between the last ice age and the current inter-glacial is about 2°C average global temperature.
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I use it to put current climate change into perspective, but also also to make the point that small changes in the earth’s temperature can be dramatic – in particular, the graph indicates that the difference between the last ice age and the current inter-glacial is about 2°C average global temperature.
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I use it to put current climate change into perspective, but also also to make the point that small changes in the earth’s temperature can be dramatic – in particular, the graph indicates that the difference between the last ice age and the current inter-glacial is about 2°C average global temperature.
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The first is that any advance toward implementing a proper commitment on reducing carbon dioxide emissions will again be what used to be known as glacial.
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The ice that is seen floating on the ocean’s surface comes from one of two sources. Glacial ice is formed from the accumulation and compression of snow into glaciers, that then break apart and release ice to the ocean. Because glaciers can be several kilometers thick the icebergs that break off of them can be very large; so the tall icebergs at sea always come from glacial ice sheets. Sea ice refers to the ice formed from the freezing of sea water, and rarely exceeds a thickness of several meters (Figure 14.1.1). Sea ice covers about 7% of the ocean at any time, and makes up about 66% of the Earth’s permanent ice cover by area, but only 0.1% of the ice in terms of volume. This is because sea ice is a vast but thin sheet of cover compared to the glacial ice caps that are more localized but may be several kilometers thick.
14.1 Types of Ice 2025
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