Meaning of frazil | Babel Free

Definitions

A collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water.

Canada, US, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“It has been suggested that it may be due to the accumulation of frazil or anchor-ice.”

“The greater the surface of the swift open⟳ water, the greater the quantity of frazil made in a minute, hour, or day. Every open⟳ rapid is, in ‘zero weather’, a frazil-factory.”

“Following currents that flow⟳ across the Bering and Chukchi shelves, microplastics from the Pacific that arrive⟳ in Arctic waters are gathered up by the tiny crystals that clump together to form⟳ ‘frazil’ (the gloss of soft ice that forms on the surface of the water) and then are bound into the sea ice.”

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