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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flat expanse of floating ice smaller than an ice field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large sheet of floating ice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A flat
mass of floating ice, smaller than anice field .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea
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Wave action can break up the nilas into small mats 1-2 m across, which then bump into each other and form rounded shapes with raised edges, called pancake ice (Figure 14.1.2 C). If temperatures remain cold the pancake ice freezes together into solid ice floes, a hard surface covering the ocean (Figure 14.1.2 D). Ice floes then freeze together into ice fields.
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