About The Word Glacial
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Glacial
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What's The Definition Of Glacial?
[adj] extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get inside; I'm freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather"
[adj] devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [adj] relating to or derived from a glacier; "glacial deposit" Synonyms | Synonyms for Glacial: arctic | cold | freezing | frigid | frosty | frozen | gelid | icy | polar | wintry Related Terms | Find terms related to Glacial: algid | aloof | arctic | below zero | biting | bitter | bitterly cold | blast-frozen | bleak | boreal | brisk | brumal | chill | chilly | cold | cold as charity | cold as death | cold as ice | cold as marble | congealed | cool | crisp | cutting | distant | emotionless | exclusive | freezing | freezing cold | frigid | frostbitten | frostnipped | frosty | frozen | frozen solid | gelid | hibernal | hiemal | hyperborean | ice | ice-cold | ice-encrusted | icelike | icy | icy-cold | inaccessible | inclement | indifferent | keen | nipping | nippy | numbing | penetrating | piercing | pinching | quick-frozen | raw | remote | reserved | rigorous | seclusive | severe | sharp | sharp-frozen | Siberian | sleety | slushy | snappy | standoffish | stone-cold | subzero | supercooled | unapproachable | unemotional | winterbound | winterlike | wintery | wintry | withdrawn See Also | Glacial In Webster's Dictionary \Gla"cial\, a. [L. glacialis, from glacies ice: cf. F.
glacial.]
1. Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice;
frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial
phenomena. --Lyell.
2. (Chem.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and
consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds;
as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
{Glacial acid} (Chem.), an acid of such strength or purity as
to crystallize at an ordinary temperature, in an icelike
form; as acetic or carbolic acid.
{Glacial drift} (Geol.), earth and rocks which have been
transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs; bowlder
drift.
{Glacial} {epoch or period} (Geol.), a period during which
the climate of the modern temperate regions was polar, and
ice covered large portions of the northern hemisphere to
the mountain tops.
{Glacial} {theory or hypothesis}. (Geol.) See {Glacier
theory}, under {Glacier}.
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