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ice front . (a) The floating vertical cliff forming the seaward edge of an ice shelf or other glacier that enters water, ranging in height from 2 to more than 50 m above sea level. Cf: ice wall. Syn: ice barrier; front [glaciol]. (b) Less preferred syn. of ice cliff in the sense of "any vertical wall of ice". (c) The snout of a glacier.

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