Word.ws English Dictionary

glaciohydraulic

glaciohydraulic adjective: of or relating to a supercooling effect by which flow and pressure at the base of a glacier allow water to remains liquid below the temperature at which it would otherwise freeze.

Adjective

glaciohydraulic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a supercooling effect by which flow and pressure at the base of a glacier allow water to remains liquid below the temperature at which it would otherwise freeze.
    • Another factor that can prolong drainage of meltwater reservoirs and result in large K values is glaciohydraulic supercooling, a process that has been well documented at the Matanuska Glacier.2007, Justin J. Johnson, Meltwater Reservoirs of the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, page 20
    • Figure 1 The process of glaciohydraulic supercooling.2011, Vijay P. Singh, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya, Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, page 439

Origin of glaciohydraulic

From glacio- + hydraulic.

Questions about glaciohydraulic

What does glaciohydraulic mean?
Glaciohydraulic means of or relating to a supercooling effect by which flow and pressure at the base of a glacier allow water to remains liquid below the temperature at which it would otherwise freeze.
What part of speech is glaciohydraulic?
Glaciohydraulic is an adjective.

Words near glaciohydraulic in the dictionary

  1. glacioeustatically
  2. glacioeustatism
  3. glaciofluvial
  4. glaciofluviatile
  5. glaciogenic
  6. glaciohydraulic
  7. glaciohydrologic
  8. glaciohydrological
  9. glaciohydrology
  10. glacioisostasy
  11. glacioisostatic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glaciohydraulic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “glaciohydraulic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/glaciohydraulic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.