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gletcher ice

gletcher ice noun: a type of floating ice formed from precipitation.

Noun

gletcher ice (usually uncountable, plural gletcher ices)

  1. (usually) A type of floating ice formed from precipitation.
    • The main part of ice thickness consists of "gletcher ice", formed from atmospheric precipitations with included in it suspended articles of different origin and microbial cells.2003 January 30, Irina N. Mitskevich, Margarita N. Poglazova, Sabit S. Abyzov, “Study of the Micro-Organisms Preserved in the Central Antarctic Glacier in Connection with the Problems of...
    • Gletcher and sea ice should be distinguished among the ice covering the sea surface in high latitudes. The former is generated exclusively from precipitation, being compacted and transformed first into firn and then gletcher ice, after it has broken off glaciers into the sea.2009, M. G. Khublaryan, edited by Martin Gaikovich Khublaryan, Types and Properties of Waters (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems; 1), →ISBN, page 18

Forms of gletcher ice

pluralgletcher ices

Questions about gletcher ice

What does gletcher ice mean?
Gletcher ice means a type of floating ice formed from precipitation.
What part of speech is gletcher ice?
Gletcher ice is a noun.
What is the plural of gletcher ice?
The plural of gletcher ice is gletcher ices.

Words near gletcher ice in the dictionary

  1. GLES
  2. Glessman
  3. Glessner
  4. Glessners
  5. gletcher
  6. gletcher ice
  7. gletcher ices
  8. Gletsch
  9. gleucometer
  10. gleucometers
  11. glew

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