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ice shelf

/ˈaɪs ˌʃɛlf/

ice shelf noun: a thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada only.

Noun

ice shelf (plural ice shelves)

  1. A thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada only.

ice shelf meaning in Tamil, Malay and Indonesian

ice shelf in Tamil

பனிப்படி அடுக்கு

ice shelf in Malay

thick floating platform of ice
pentas ais

ice shelf in Indonesian

thick floating platform of ice
lempengan es, paparan es

Forms of ice shelf

pluralice shelves
alternative formice-shelf
alternative formiceshelf

Questions about ice shelf

What does ice shelf mean?
Ice shelf means a thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada only.
What is ice shelf in Tamil?
Ice shelf in Tamil is பனிப்படி அடுக்கு. See Ice shelf meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ice shelf?
Ice shelf is a noun.
How do you pronounce ice shelf?
Ice shelf is pronounced /ˈaɪs ˌʃɛlf/.
What is the plural of ice shelf?
The plural of ice shelf is ice shelves.

Words near ice shelf in the dictionary

  1. ice scramble
  2. ice scraper
  3. ice scrapers
  4. ice sheet
  5. ice sheets
  6. ice shelf
  7. ice shelves
  8. ice shove
  9. ice shoves
  10. ice show
  11. ice shows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ice shelf (page history and authors); ice shelf (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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