antarctic

IPA: æntˈɑrktɪk

Root Word: Antarctic

noun

  • A continental region, one of the major ecozones of the world, covering the south polar regions, especially those south of the Antarctic Convergence; or, in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty System, the 60th parallel south.

adjective

  • Of, from, or pertaining to Antarctica and the south polar regions.
  • (figuratively) Opposite, contradictory.
  • (obsolete) Southern.
  • Alternative spelling of Antarctic [Of, from, or pertaining to Antarctica and the south polar regions.]
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Examples of "antarctic" in Sentences

  • All that said, these are the predictions for an atmosphere of 1000ppm, 3 times what we have now, and only after the antarctic ice melts nearly completely.
  • BUt hey, if one area in the centre of the antarctic is getting more snow … surely that must contradict the hundreds of others signals that global warming is real.
  • You may have heard that some of the “computer models” predicted increases in antarctic ice, but they predicted increased “interior ice” due to increased snow fall.
  • Editor's note: they are all experts with decades of experience in the arctic and antarctic and have done things like this before i.e. driving humvees over long stretches of frozen sea ice.
  • There is only a few places that this excess energy can go, outwards, and inwards into the permafrost, the floating ice, the greenland ice sheet, antarctic ice sheet, and into the deep cold oceans.
  • This is not a surprising phenomenon as such an increase would be the result of increasing percipitation and this is fully consistent with a warming world as the antarctic is a desert and warmer climates tend towards more percipitation.
  • When the weather got fine, we took a walk round the island as far as the ridge that bisected it would allow, finding the elevated ground clothed with thickly growing trees, principally a species of spruce fir called the antarctic beech, which runs to a height of some thirty or forty feet, with a girth of five or six feet.
  • As anyone coapable of reading at even a third grade level could easily understand by doing nothing more exotic than actually reading — so obviously entirelyt beyond your ability to even imagine — citing a single report on the collapse of arctic sea ice cannot possibly be construed as denying that ice in the antarctic was also under discussion.

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