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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ice, water icenoun

    water frozen in the solid state

    "Americans like ice in their drinks"

  2. water ice, sorbetnoun

    an ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice

Wiktionary

  1. water icenoun

    Ordinary frozen water, especially when a distinction needs to be made from other frozen substances

  2. water icenoun

    A dessert made from crushed ice that has been sweetened and flavoured

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  1. water ice

    Water ice is a solid state of water, typically formed when liquid water freezes due to lower temperatures. It is a crystalline substance which commonly exists in the form of ice cubes, icicles, frost, snowflakes, glaciers, and frozen ponds or rivers. It is an essential part of the Earth's climate and ecosystem, covering about 10% of its land mass.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Water ice

    water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of water ice in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of water ice in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of water ice in a Sentence

  1. Pascal Lee:

    The desire to land humans at a location where they might be able to extract water ice from the ground has been pushing mission planners to consider higher latitude sites, but the latter environments are typically colder and more challenging for humans and robots. If there were equatorial locations where ice might be found at shallow depth, then we’d have the best of both environments: warmer conditions for human exploration and still access to ice.

  2. Pascal Lee:

    Water ice is, at present, not stable at the very surface of Mars near the equator at these elevations, so, it’s not surprising that we’re not detecting any water ice at the surface. It is possible that all the glacier’s water ice has sublimated away by now. But there’s also a chance that some of it might still be protected at shallow depth under the sulfate salts.

  3. Jennifer Bergner:

    When the body is warmed, the water ice restructures to a more stable and compact form, and the trapped gas can escape, this could explain ‘Oumuamua’s behavior but doesn’t need to invoke any exotic chemistry or physics.

  4. Jeff Moore:

    The surface of Pluto is every bit as complex as that of Mars, the randomly jumbled mountains might be huge blocks of hard water ice floating within a vast, denser, softer deposit of frozen nitrogen within the region informally named Sputnik Planum.

  5. Alan Stern:

    The steep topography means that the bedrock that makes those mountains must be made of H2O -- of water ice, we can be very sure that the water is there in great abundance.


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