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WATER ICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice
Synonyms:
sorbet; water ice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("water ice" is a kind of...):
frappe; ice (a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Water frozen in the solid state
Example:
Americans like ice in their drinks
Synonyms:
ice; water ice
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("water ice" is a kind of...):
crystal (a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure)
Meronyms (substance of "water ice"):
H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water ice"):
black ice (a thin coating of ice (as from freezing mist) on a road or sidewalk; nearly invisible but very hazardous)
frost; hoar; hoarfrost; rime (ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside))
hailstone (small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm)
icicle (ice resembling a pendent spear, formed by the freezing of dripping water)
Holonyms ("water ice" is a substance of...):
ice cube (a small cube of artificial ice; used for cooling drinks)
glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)
Context examples:
Galileo's spectrometer found water ice and a substance that appeared to be magnesium sulfate salts (like Epsom salts).
(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)
Because the surface of Pluto is so cold, the water ice is rock-like and immobile.
(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)
Additionally, Ceres has long been suspected to contain low-density materials such as water ice, which the study shows separated from the rocky material and rose to the outer layer along with other light materials.
(What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data, NASA)
The twist at Titan is that its lakes and seas are filled with hydrocarbons rather than liquid water, and water ice overlain by a layer of solid organic material serves as the bedrock surrounding these lakes and seas.
(Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth, NASA)
An accessible supply of water ice near the equator would be of interest in planning astronaut exploration of Mars.
(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)
The map shows lots of blue and purple in this region, representing water ice less than one foot (30 centimeters) below the surface; warm colors are over two feet (60 centimeters) deep.
(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)
A team of scientists used data from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument to identify three specific signatures that definitively prove there is water ice at the surface of the Moon.
(Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles, NASA)
In a second significant finding, New Horizons has detected numerous small, exposed regions of water ice on Pluto.
(New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto, NASA)
Ceres' uppermost surface is rich in hydrogen, with higher concentrations at mid-to-high latitudes — consistent with broad expanses of water ice.
(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)
Compositional data also show that the surface of Piri Planitia is more enriched in water ice (shown in false color as blue) than the higher plateaus, which may indicate that Piri Planitia’s surface is made of water ice bedrock, just beneath a layer of retreating methane ice.
(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)
