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glacier (s) (noun), glaciers (pl)
1. A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted snow in an area where snow accumulation exceeds melting: A glacier moves slowly outward from the center of accumulation or down a mountain slope, or valley, until it melts or breaks away.
2. Etymology: from Latin glacies, "ice"; from French glacier, "ice".
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surging glacier (s) (noun), surging glaciers (pl)
A glacier which alternates between short periods (one to four years) of very rapid flow, or surges, and longer periods (ten to one-hundred years) of stagnation or near stagnation.
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