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#1·Apr 27, 2026
Water in frozen (solid) form.
Origin: From , hyys, ice, ijs, is, yce, ys, yys, from , from , from , from . Cognate with , is, , , , isch, éisch, , , , , , , , , , , ; also , yeyn, , , eigh, eighre, , , , , , , , , , . Superseded non-native , borrowed from. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
: It has always been difficult to explain how ice is formed on the surface of oceans while the temperature of maximum density is lower than that of cogelation, and the observations on this lake were instituted in the hope that they might…
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
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