Definitions For Glaciology

Noun

GLACIOLOGY (plural glaciologies) (geography) The study#noun, study of ice#noun, ice and its effect#noun, effect on the landscape#noun, landscape, especially the study of glaciers. from late 19th c.

Derived terms

{{der3, en, astroglaciological, astroglaciology, glaciological, glaciologically, glaciologist, radioglaciology}}

Translations

Albanian: glaciologjia Arabic: علم الجليد Azerbaijani: qlyasiologiya Basque: glaziologia Belarusian: гляцыялогія Bengali: হিমবিদ্যা Bihari: हिमानी बिज्ञान Bulgarian: глациология Catalan: glaciologia, f Chinese: : Mandarin: 冰川学 : Min Nan: peng-hô-ha̍k Czech: glaciologie Danish: glaciologi Dutch: gletsjerkunde, f, glaciologie, f Esperanto: glaciologio Estonian: glatsioloogia Finnish: glasiologia French: glaciologie, f Georgian: გლაციოლოგია German: Glaziologie, f Hindi: हिमानी विज्ञान Hungarian: glaciológia Icelandic: jöklafræði Indonesian: glasiologi Irish: oigheareolaíocht, f Italian: glaciologia, f Japanese: 雪氷学 Kazakh: мұздықтану Khmer: ទឹកកកវិទ្យា, sc=Khmr (tɨk kɑɑ kɑɑ vityie), ហិមានីវិទ្យា (he’maanii vityie, sc=Khmr) Korean: 빙하학 Kyrgyz: гляциология Latvian: glacioloģija Limburgish: gletsjerkónde Lithuanian: glaciologija Luxembourgish: glaziologie Malay: glaciologi Norwegian: : Bokmål: glasiologi, m : Nynorsk: glasiologi Occitan: glaciologia Persian: یخچال‌شناسی Polish: glacjologia, f Portuguese: glaciologia, f Punjabi: ਗਲੇਸ਼ੀਅਰ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ Romanian: glaciologie Russian: гляциоло́гия, f Scots: glaciology Serbo-Croatian: glaciologija, глациологија Sinhalese: ග්ලැසියර විද්‍යාව Slovak: glaciológia Spanish: glaciología, f Swedish: glaciologi Tagalog: glasyolohiya Thai: วิทยาธารน้ำแข็ง Turkish: buzul bilimi, buzulbilim, glasiyoloji Ukrainian: гляціологія Uzbek: glyatsiologiya Vietnamese: băng hà học Waray-Waray: glasyolohiya Welsh: rhewlifeg

Etymology

{{PIE root, en, gel}} image of the {{w, Fedchenko Glacier}} in tajikistan. At a length of 77 kilometres (48 miles), it is the longest glacier not in a polar region.]] from {{der + en + la + glaciēs + + ice}} (from {{der + en + ine-pro + *gel- + + to be cold; to freeze}}) + ology