CALVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calving mean? 

• CALVING (noun)
  The noun CALVING has 1 sense:

1. giving birth to a calf

  Familiarity information: CALVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Giving birth to a calf

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("calving" is a kind of...):

birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition (the process of giving birth)

 Context examples 

Hyperimmune bovine colostrum is harvested during the first days after calving from cows that have been inoculated repeatedly with specific pathogens during pregnancy.

(Hyperimmune Bovine Colostrum, NCI Thesaurus)

Edge of the ice sheet where melting and calving of icebergs occurs.

(Ice sheet margin, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

For many years, Yakutat’s two main tributaries merged and formed a 5-kilometer (3-mile) calving face that extended far into Harlequin Lake.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)

The calving of the massive new iceberg was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite, and confirmed by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument on the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)

The researchers found cavities that undercut the base of these leading edges that can destabilize the ice front and enhance iceberg calving, the process where parts of the glacier break off and float away.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)

As a result, the calving front divided into two sections, with one running east-west and another running north-south.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)