ICE MASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ice mass mean? 

• ICE MASS (noun)
  The noun ICE MASS has 1 sense:

1. a large mass of ice

  Familiarity information: ICE MASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICE MASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large mass of ice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("ice mass" is a kind of...):

formation; geological formation ((geology) the geological features of the earth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ice mass"):

glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)

berg; iceberg (a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier)

ice cap; icecap (a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak))

ice field (a large flat mass of ice (larger than an ice floe) floating at sea)

floe; ice floe (a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea)

 Context examples 

"But now we recognize a second serious problem — increasingly, large amounts of ice mass are going to leave as meltwater, as rivers that flow into the sea."

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

Warm water, being on top, tends to become even more likely to find these cracks, so increasing the ice mass' melt rate.

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

The latest study used data from NASA satellites, as well as GPS stations across Greenland, to analyze changes in ice mass.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)