icecrete

English

Etymology

From ice +‎ -crete.

Noun

icecrete (uncountable)

1. A concretion of water ice as the cementing substance, and an aggregate.
   • 1949, United States. Department of the Army, Field Manual, page 45:

     Icecrete . A good overhead protection in winter is icecrete . Icecrete is a dense , frozen mixture of sand and water , or sand with gravel , ( or broken stone ) and water , which is many times stronger than normal ice .

Hyponyms

• pykrete
• superpykrete

 

Related terms

• bituminous concrete
• cementitious concrete
• concrete
• snowcrete