permafrost

From perma- +‎ frost.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝməˌfɹɔst/

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permafrost (countable and uncountable, plural permafrosts)

1. Permanently frozen ground, or a specific layer thereof.
   • 2003, Johannes C. Nonner, Introduction to Hydrogeology, →ISBN, page 157:

     Nevertheless, the water molecule is present, as ice, in a solid form in frozen soils or permafrosts, which cover large regions characterised by a polar climate.

   • 2015 July 21, Christopher R. Penton et al., “Denitrifying and diazotrophic community responses to artificial warming in permafrost and tallgrass prairie soils”, in Frontiers in Microbiology‎^[1], volume 6, →DOI:

     In agreement with our overall trends within the permafrost samples, lower nirK and nirS and higher nosZ diversity have been identified in cryoturbated peat vs. unturbated peat soils (Palmer and Horn, 2012 ).

• permafrosted

• cryogenesis

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Borrowed from English permafrost.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.maːˌfrɔst/

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• Hyphenation: per‧ma‧frost

permafrost m (uncountable)

1. permafrost

From perma- +‎ frost.

permafrost m (plural permafrosts)

1. permafrost

• “permafrost”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From English permafrost.

permafrost m (definite singular permafrosten, uncountable)

1. permafrost

• “permafrost” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “permafrost” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Borrowed from English permafrost.

permafrost m (definite singular permafrosten, uncountable)

1. permafrost

• “permafrost” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

permafrost m (uncountable)

1. (geology) permafrost (permanently frozen ground)

Borrowed from German Permafrost or French permafrost.

permafrost n (plural permafrosturi)

1. permafrost

Borrowed from English permafrost.

• IPA^(key): /peɾmaˈfɾost/ [peɾ.maˈfɾost̪]
• Rhymes: -ost
• Syllabification: per‧ma‧frost

permafrost m (uncountable)

1. (geology) permafrost

   Synonyms: permagel, permacongelamiento

• “permafrost”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

permafrost c

1. permafrost

• tjäle (“frozen ground”)

• permafrost in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• permafrost in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)