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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large expanse of ice covering a mountainous region and consisting of several interconnected glaciers.
- noun An extensive area of ice on the surface of the ocean, consisting of multiple ice floes and covering an area that is greater than 10 kilometers (6 miles) across.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A great sheet or floe of ice, at times so extensive in arctic seas that its limits cannot be seen from the masthead.
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- noun a
network ofinterconnected glaciers or ice streams having acommon source - noun a large
expanse offloating ice (severalmiles long)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large flat mass of ice (larger than an ice floe) 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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