bond event
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A North Atlantic ice-rafting event of a kind tentatively linked to climate fluctuations in the Holocene.
Etymology
Named after Gerard C. Bond of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, lead author of a 1997 paper that postulated the theory of 1470-year climate cycles in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene.