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glacial

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1. glacial - Noun

2. glacial - Adjective

3. glacial - Adjective Satellite

4. Glacial - Proper noun

Meaning

Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.

Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity! Iain Banks

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface. Roald Dahl

The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration. ... Out of all the cold darkness and glacial crushing and grinding comes this warm, abounding beauty and life to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation finer and finer. John Muir

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-colored walls of [an addict]'s terrible pit. Nelson Algren

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine. James Balog

The Vedic hymns were sung in post glacial times (8,000BC) by poets who had inherited their knowledge or contents thereof from their antediluvian forefathers. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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