frazil

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Pronunciation

/ˈfɹæ.zəl/

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/ˈfɹæ.zəl/ · /ˈfɹeɪ.zəl/ · /-zɪl/

Definition of frazil

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(Canada, US, countable, uncountable)A collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water.

“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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noun

(Canada, US, countable, uncountable)A collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water.

“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.”
(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of farasola.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Canadian French frasil, frazil, fraisil, from French fraisil (“coal cinders”), from Old French faisil.

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