Antarctica
nameEtymology
From New Latin Antarctica, from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), from ἀντι- (anti-, “anti-, against, opposed”) + ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “Arctic”), from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”).
- derived from ἀνταρκτικός
- derived from Antarctica
Definitions
The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.
- Dr. Murray believes that Alexander I. Land is a part of the west coast of Graham's Land, and that this landmass, which Biscoe and Larsen proved to widen rapidly toward the south, is only a peninsula of the continent of Antarctica.
- To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
the Antarctic
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at Antarctica. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at antarctica. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at antarctica
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA