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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ice age, glacial period, glacial epochnoun

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. ice agenoun

    Any of several cold periods in the history of the earth marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth.

Wikipedia

  1. Ice Age

    Ice Age is a song by American post-industrial group How to Destroy Angels from their second release, An Omen EP. It is also one of four songs from the extended play to be featured on their first full-length release, Welcome Oblivion.

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  1. ice age

    An ice age is a prolonged period in the Earth's geological history during which the planet's surface and atmosphere undergo significant cooling, leading to the formation and expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. It's marked by global temperatures significantly lower than average, contrasting with periods of relatively warmer climate known as "interglacial periods". This climatic era tends to have major impacts on the planet's climate, including changes in sea levels and wildlife distribution.

Wikidata

  1. Ice age

    An ice age, or more precisely, a glacial age, is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of cold climate are termed "glacial periods", and intermittent warm periods are called "interglacials". Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres. By this definition, we are still in the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

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

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

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

Examples of ice age in a Sentence

  1. Burt Flickinger:

    It's really concerning news that a company as well managed as Macy's is having such a tough time growing sales, it's a broader issue. It's an acceleration of a retail ice age.

  2. Ray Catalano:

    Humans are incredibly adaptable, we got through the Great Ice Age, what will we be after that adaption ? We will be different.

  3. Love Dalén:

    I think one of the simplest explanations is that hunter-gatherers may have caught wolf pups, which is extremely easy to do, and kept them in captivity as sentinels against the large predators that roamed the landscapes of the last Ice Age - bears, cave lions, etc. as well as other dangerous mammals - mammoths, woolly rhinos, other humans.

  4. Doug Biesecker:

    It's a very complicated issue, does the sun have a role in our variable climate? Yes. Is the dominant role? No. Even the concept of the sun being responsible for Europe's mini ice age -- it's not hard-and-fast true.

  5. Mike Everhart:

    The bear skull was washed out of the same river sediments that routinely produce the skulls and bones of the American bison, some of which could date back as far as the last Ice Age, whether it is hundreds or thousands of years old, the skull gives us a better insight into the richness of life on the plains before Western man.


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