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Definition calving in American English

calving noun

noun
1

the process of a piece of ice breaking off a surface (eg a glacier)

Example

By the time you read this, it may already have met the open water, where it will drop into the sea one of the biggest icebergs ever, a process known poetically as "calving".

Definition calving in American English