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icemelt

icemelt noun: the melting of a geographical mass of ice.

Noun

icemelt (countable and uncountable, plural icemelts)

  1. The melting of a geographical mass of ice.
    • Many of the Sierra Nevada fans have associated perennial streams fed by rainfall, snowmelt or glacial icemelt in the catchments.2002, Ireneo Peter Martini, Victor R Baker, Guillermina Garzón, Flood and megaflood processes and deposits: recent and ancient examples

Forms of icemelt

pluralicemelts

Origin of icemelt

From ice + melt.

Questions about icemelt

What does icemelt mean?
Icemelt means the melting of a geographical mass of ice.
What part of speech is icemelt?
Icemelt is a noun.
What is the plural of icemelt?
The plural of icemelt is icemelts.

Words near icemelt in the dictionary

  1. icemaker
  2. icemakers
  3. icemaking
  4. iceman
  5. icemanship
  6. icemelt
  7. icemelts
  8. icemen
  9. icen
  10. icened
  11. Icenhour

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