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GLOF

GLOF is the acronym of glacial lake outburst flood.

Meaning of glacial lake outburst flood

Noun

glacial lake outburst flood (plural glacial lake outburst floods)

  1. The rapid draining of a lake created by a dam of glacial ice, wherein the lake water undermines the glacier plugging the outlet, leading to a flood.
    Synonyms:
    GLOF

Forms of GLOF

pluralGLOFs

Questions about GLOF

What is GLOF the acronym of?
GLOF is the acronym of glacial lake outburst flood.

Words near GLOF in the dictionary

  1. gloeoplerous
  2. gloeorhodopsin
  3. gloeorhodopsins
  4. gloeovessel
  5. gloeovessels
  6. GLOF
  7. GloFish
  8. GloFishes
  9. glofitamab
  10. GLOFs
  11. Gloger's rule

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Adapted from Wiktionary: GLOF (page history and authors); glacial lake outburst flood (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.

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