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  • noun The melting of a geographical mass of ice.

Etymologies

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ice +‎ melt

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Examples

  • The tiny restaurant opened directly onto Tokyo's central fish market, a low step the only barrier to the slurry of icemelt, blood, and waste spilling across the concrete.

    Static 2010

  • If the current icemelt continues, Emperor Penguins will be extinct in 100 years.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Daily Linker – 01/28/09 2009

  • If the current icemelt continues, Emperor Penguins will be extinct in 100 years.

    Nunc Scio » 2009 » January 2009

  • The broken plaster might have served several purposes: lime fertilizer for the garden or as icemelt on winter sidewalkswood ashes were good for that too.

    house: the remodelling, part 3 Holly 2007

  • The tides are perpetually high and 8–12″ higher than before the Sept. 2007 icemelt.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at George Washington University: 2007

  • Here is an abstract from my I-never-thought-about-that collection. the paper discusses the importance of downwelling IR on snowmelt and presumably icemelt.

    Road Map #3 « Climate Audit 2006

  • The tiny restaurant opened directly onto Tokyo's central fish market, a low step the only barrier to the slurry of icemelt, blood, and waste spilling across the concrete.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Further on, you'll find wild west basalt mountains, waterfalls of icemelt, luxurious hillsides of russet, copper and yellow lichens and shimmering cotton grass.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • During a recent drive into Canada, I noticed a truck spraying liquid icemelt to the surface of the QEW, rather than spreading salt.

    Buffalo Pundit 2009

  • E - 2. 188\%, the percent of one inch per year that would spread onto each square mile of ocean based on 48 cubic miles of icemelt input (C x D).

    unknown title 2009

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