interglacial
English
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edit- Rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Adjective
editinterglacial (not comparable)
- Occurring between glaciations (colloquially known as ice ages).
- 2014, Antoinette Mannion, Global Environmental Change, page 71:
- Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.
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editoccurring between glaciations
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Noun
editinterglacial (plural interglacials)
- The relatively warm period between glacial periods.
- 2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209:
- The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.
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editrelatively warm period between glacial periods
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edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /inteɾɡlaˈθjal/ [ĩn̪.t̪eɾ.ɣ̞laˈθjal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /inteɾɡlaˈsjal/ [ĩn̪.t̪eɾ.ɣ̞laˈsjal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: in‧ter‧gla‧cial
Adjective
editinterglacial m or f (masculine and feminine plural interglaciales)
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