snow line
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The altitude, in a mountainous region, above which the ground is covered with snow, at any particular time.
noun
The limit for water remaining solid instead of evaporating away under solar radiation.
Example Sentences
- "Chris Ormel, an astronomer at the University of Amsterdam, and his colleagues recently calculated that protoplanets began to form at the snow line around the star, then grew quickly by accreting pebbles."
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Places.
Inflected Forms
snow lines (plural)
snow-line (alternative)