Glacial Period

  

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Glacial Period

Definition: Glacial Period

Glacial Period

Noun

1. Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Glacial Period

DomainDefinitions

Geography

Part of geologic time, from Precambrian onward, in which the climate was notably cold in both the northern and southern hemispheres and widespread glaciers moved toward the equator and covered a much larger total area than those of the present day. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

See:glacial epoch. (references)

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Synonyms: Glacial Period

Synonyms: glacial epoch (n), ice age (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Glacial Period

English words defined with "glacial period": Champlain periodGlacier theoryice agePreglacial. (references)
Specialty definitions using "glacial period": pluvial lake. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Glacial Period

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  glacial period

2
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Modern Translations: Glacial Period

Language Translations for "glacial period"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

dobra ledová. (various references)

   

Danish

  

glacialtid (drift epoch, glacial epoch, ice age), istid (drift epoch, glacial epoch, ice age). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

glaciatie (drift epoch, glacial epoch, glacial stage, glaciation, ice age, ice flood), ijstijd (drift epoch, glacial epoch, glacial stage, glaciation, ice age, ice flood). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

jääkausi (drift epoch, glacial epoch, Ice Age). (various references)

   

French

  

époque glaciaire (glacial epoch). (various references)

   

German

  

glaciale Epoche (drift epoch, glacial epoch, ice age), eiszeitliche Epoche (drift epoch, glacial epoch, ice age). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παγετώδης εποχή (drift epoch, glacial epoch, ice age). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

jégkorszak (glacial epoch, ice age, ice-age). (various references)

   

Italian

  

epoca glaciale (drift epoch, glacial epoch, ice age). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

氷河時代 , 氷河期 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひょうがじ い, ひょうがき. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acialglay eriodpay

   

Portuguese

  

período glaciário (drift epoch, glacial epoch, glacial stage, glaciation, ice age, ice flood). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

istid (drift epoch, glacial epoch, ice age). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ยุคน้ำแข็ง. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Glacial Period

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-g-i-i-l-l-o-p-r"

-3 letters: dialogical, epicardial, periodical, prelogical.

-4 letters: algicidal, aperiodic, caprioled, cigarillo, epicardia, gallopade, goliardic, pilgarlic, pilloried, regicidal.

-5 letters: aecidial, algicide, allergic, alogical, alopecia, arillode, arilloid, calliope, calliper, capriole, carolled, collaged, collared, collegia, collider, diallage, dialoger, dialogic, diplegia, galleria, galliard, galloped, galloper, galopade, gladiola, gladioli, gladlier, grillade, lipoidal, paillard, palladic, pelagial, pellagra, peridial, periodic, pillaged, pillager.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-g-i-i-l-l-o-p-r"
 

+2 letters: ideographically.

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Alternative Orthography: Glacial Period


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 6C 61 63 69 61 6C      50 65 72 69 6F 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#105 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#80 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#111 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 006C 0061 0063 0069 0061 006C      0050 0065 0072 0069 006F 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

417867697567782507184758170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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