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ice age

n.

1. A cold period marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth.

2. Ice Age The most recent glacial period, which occurred during the Pleistocene Epoch.

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ice age

n

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) another name for glacial period

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ice′ age`
n.

1. (often caps.) the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.

2. any one of the Permian, Carboniferous, Cambrian, or Precambrian glaciations.

[1870–75]

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ice age

1. Any of several cold periods during which glaciers covered much of the Earth.

2. Ice Age. The most recent glacial period, which occurred during the Pleistocene Epoch and ended about 10,000 years ago. During the Pleistocene Ice Age, great sheets of ice up to two miles thick covered most of Greenland, Canada, and the northern United States as well as northern Europe and Russia.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

ice age - 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" glacial epoch, glacial period geological period, period - a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" prehistoric culture, prehistory - the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word

Translations

Ice Age n the Ice Age → l'era glaciale