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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The upper part of a glacier where the snow turns into ice.
  2. n. A snow field at the head of a glacier.
  3. n. The granular snow typically found in such a field.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A nephew.
  2. n. A spendthrift.
  3. n. A Middle English form of neaf.
  4. n. See næve.
  5. n. Same as firn. Also glacier-snow.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Geol.) The upper part of a glacier, above the limit of perpetual snow. See glacier.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice

Etymologies

  1. French, from French dialectal névi, from Vulgar Latin *nivātum, from neuter of Latin nivātus, cooled by snow, from nix, niv-, snow; see sneigwh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. ice

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  1. continental glacier
  1. water ice
  1. bergschrund
  1. glacier-snow
  1. glacieret
  1. icecap
  1. sérac

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  • reesetee A young, granular type of snow that's been partially melted, refrozen and compacted. This type of snow is associated with glacier formation through the process of nivation. Névé that survives a full season of ablation is referred to as firn, which is both older and slightly denser. Firn eventually becomes glacial ice. Feb 12, 2008

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