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Ice floe

//ˈaɪs.floʊ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.
  2. 2
    a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea wordnet
  3. 3
    An ice dam (ice jam), a blockage of ice in a river starting with an ice floe in the river.
  4. 4
    An ice stream (ice flow), a type of fast moving glacier
  5. 5
    A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field.

Etymology

From ice + floe.

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