icecap
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noun
a thick cover of ice over an area, sloping in all directions from the center.
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| a thick mass of glacial ice and snow that permanently covers an area of land, such as either of the polar regions or the peak of a mountain | |
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Example sentences
All of this happens much more slowly than icecap melting would go, if it were to happen.
They buried this region under an immense icecap which was probably a mile thick.
Called katabatic winds, they are pulled down the slope of the icecap by gravity.
Basically, we're building the world's largest particle detector out of the polar icecap itself.
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