Definitions for moulin
moulin

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moulin, glacier millnoun

   a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation

   "the icy river plunged, roaring, into the moulin's blue depths"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. moulinnoun

   A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier's surface.

2. Etymology: From moulin, from molinum.

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1. moulin

   A moulin is a narrow, vertical or nearly vertical, well-like shaft within a glacier or ice sheet, formed by surface water percolating through a crack in the ice. The water that flows into moulins often originates from meltwater on the surface of the glacier. It is a feature of glacial erosion and can extend hundreds of meters deep, sometimes reaching all the way to the bottom of the glacier.

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1. Moulin

   A moulin or glacier mill is a roughly circular, vertical to nearly vertical well-like shaft within a glacier through which water enters from the surface. The term is derived from the French word for mill. They can be up to 10 metres wide and are typically found at a flat area of a glacier in a region of transverse crevasses. Moulins can reach the bottom of the glacier, hundreds of metres deep, or may only reach the depth of common crevasse formation where the stream flows englacially. They are the most typical cause for the formation of a glacier cave. Moulins are a part of a glacier's internal "plumbing" system, that carry meltwater from the surface down to wherever it may go. Water from a moulin often exits the glacier at base level, sometimes into the sea, and occasionally the lower end of a moulin may be exposed in the face of a glacier or at the edge of a stagnant block of ice. Water from moulins may help lubricate the base of the glacier, affecting glacial motion. Given an appropriate relationship between an ice sheet and the terrain, the head of water in a moulin can provide the power and medium with which a tunnel valley may be formed. The role of water in lubricating the base of ice sheets and glaciers is complex. Difficulties modelling this process led to apparently over-optimistic predictions of sea level rise by the IPCC in the IPCC fourth assessment report. Recent research by Stefan Rahmstorf, released at the Climate Congress suggests that sea level rise will be greater than predicted in the IPCC's report.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Moulin

   mōō-lang′, n. a cavity formed in a glacier by the running down of surface water, sometimes allowing a cascade to be formed. [Fr.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MOULIN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Moulin is ranked #38389 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Moulin surname appeared 577 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Moulin.
   
   88.7% or 512 total occurrences were White.
   4.6% or 27 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.9% or 17 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.9% or 11 total occurrences were Asian.

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1. • Chute

How to pronounce moulin?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of moulin in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of moulin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of moulin in a Sentence

1. Olga Khokhlova:

   I love the adrenaline of the stage. The Moulin is a magical place where I live out my passion, when I'm on stage, I know that I am the inheritor of famous dancers who for 130 years have made the Moulin Rouge.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=moulin
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Moulin
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=moulin
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=moulin
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html