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Definition: Glacial Period |
Glacial PeriodNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
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 PeriodSynonyms: glacial epoch (n), ice age (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glacial Period |
| English words defined with "glacial period": Champlain period ♦ Glacier theory ♦ ice age ♦ Preglacial. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glacial period": pluvial lake. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glacial period | 2 |
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| 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 período glaciário (drift epoch, glacial epoch, glacial stage, glaciation, ice age, ice flood). (various references) istid (drift epoch, glacial epoch, ice age). (various references) ยุคน้ำแข็ง. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 6C 61 63 69 61 6C      50 65 72 69 6F 64 |
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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)G l a c i a l   P e r i o d |
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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