snowline

noun

  1. 1

    The altitude, in a mountainous region, above which the ground is covered with snow, at any particular time.

  2. 2

    The inner limit where volatile molecules can remain frozen in the zone around a star

  3. 3

    By restriction, the limit for water remaining solid instead of evaporating away under solar radiation

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