Usually means: Separation of ice from glacier.
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  1. calving: Merriam-Webster
  2. calving: Collins English Dictionary
  3. calving: Vocabulary.com
  4. Calving, calving: Wordnik
  5. calving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. calving: Wiktionary
  7. Calving, calving: Dictionary.com
  8. Calving (disambiguation), Calving: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Calving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. calving: Rhymezone
  11. Calving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. calving: FreeDictionary.org
  13. calving: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. calving: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. calving: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. calving: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. calving: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

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  1. calving: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Calving: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (calving)

noun:  The act of giving birth to a calf
noun:  The breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier, iceberg etc.
noun:  (by extension) The process by which an iceberg is formed.

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