[ひょうき, hyouki] (n, adj-no) (See 氷河時代) glacial period; ice age [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Glacial \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.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Chem.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and
consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds;
as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
[1913 Webster]
{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 {Glacial 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 {Glacial hypothesis}. (Geol.) See
{Glacier theory}, under {Glacier}.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glacial period
n 1: any period of time during which glaciers covered a large
part of the earth's surface; "the most recent ice age was
during the Pleistocene" [syn: {ice age}, {glacial period},
{glacial epoch}]
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