English
Noun
polar cap (plural polar caps)
- (planetology) A high-latitude region of a celestial body that is covered by ice.
- Earth's polar caps may melt if global warming continues.
- The southern polar cap of Mars consists of both carbon dioxide and water ice.
Translations
high-latitude region covered by ice
- Armenian: բևեռային գլխարկ (beweṙayin glxark)
- Basque: poloetako izotz-geruzak
- Belarusian: палярная шапка (paliarnaia shapka)
- Catalan: casquet polar
- Finnish: napajäätikkö
- French: inlandsis (fr), calotte polaire (fr)
- German: Polare Eiskappen, Polkappen (de)
- Hindi: ध्रुवीय बर्फ टोपी (dhruvīy bark ṭopī)
- Icelandic: íshvel
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- Indonesian: tudung es kutub
- Italian: calotta polare
- Japanese: 極冠 (きょくかん, kyokukan)
- Persian: کلاهک یخی (fa)
- Polish: polarna czapa lodowa
- Portuguese: calota polar
- Russian: поля́рная ша́пка f (poljárnaja šápka)
- Slovak: polárna čiapka
- Spanish: casquete polar, capa de hielo
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