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Ice Harbor Dam

Ice Harbor Dam is a hydroelectric and navigation dam on the lower Snake River in southeast Washington, the first and furthest downriver of the four lower Snake River dams.

Ice house (building)

An ice house is a building or pit for storing winter ice and snow for use in summer, chiefly to chill food and drinks before mechanical refrigeration.

ICE L

ICE L is a long-distance train operated by Deutsche Bahn and built by Talgo, the first ICE that is locomotive-hauled rather than a powered multiple unit.

Ice Lake (microprocessor)

Ice Lake is an Intel processor family using the Sunny Cove microarchitecture on Intel's 10 nm process, launched in 2019 as 10th generation Core mobile chips.

Ice maker

An ice maker is a device, usually built into a household refrigerator, that automatically fills a mold with water, freezes it into cubes, and ejects them into a storage bin.

Ice protection system

An ice protection system, also known as anti-icing equipment, prevents ice from forming or removes accumulated ice on aircraft surfaces such as wings, engine inlets, and rotor blades.

Ice resurfacer

An ice resurfacer, also known as a Zamboni machine, is a vehicle that shaves, washes, and refloods ice rinks in one pass; Frank Zamboni built the first self-propelled model in 1949.

Ice shedding

Ice shedding is the sudden detachment of ice from overhead transmission line conductors due to melting, wind, or de-icing, causing jumping conductors, flashovers, and tower damage.

Ice Worm

Ice Worm is NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ice-climbing robot, adapted from a limb of the LEMUR robot, built to demonstrate mobility on Europa, Enceladus, and Earth glaciers.

Iceberg REST catalog specification

The Iceberg REST catalog specification is an OpenAPI-defined HTTP protocol in Apache Iceberg for talking to any Iceberg catalog: config, namespaces, tables, commits, credentials, scan planning. One client works with any compliant server like Polaris or Glue.

Icebreaker

An icebreaker is a ship whose reinforced, spoon-shaped bow rides up onto ice and fractures it under the vessel's own weight, keeping channels and harbors open for other ships.

IceCube Hot Water Drill

The IceCube Hot Water Drill, formally the Enhanced Hot Water Drill (EHWD), is a 5-megawatt hot-water drilling system built at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to melt boreholes for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole.

Icefin

Icefin is a torpedo-shaped underwater robot developed by Britney Schmidt's team at Georgia Tech and Cornell, lowered through boreholes to explore the ocean beneath Antarctic ice shelves, including Thwaites Glacier.

Iceflake Studios

Iceflake Studios is a Finnish video game developer in Tampere, founded in 2007, owned by Paradox Interactive since 2020 and known for Surviving the Aftermath.

Iceland Deep Drilling Project

The Iceland Deep Drilling Project is an Icelandic research consortium drilling deep wells into volcanic geothermal systems to test whether superhot fluids can generate power economically.

Icelandair

Icelandair, also known as Iceair, is the flag-carrying Icelandic airline connecting Europe and North America through a hub at Keflavík International Airport, with roots dating to 1937.

IceMole

IceMole is a maneuverable subsurface probe that combines thermal melting with mechanical drilling, developed at FH Aachen in Germany around 2010 for clean sampling of ice and subglacial water.

Icertis

Icertis is a privately held American software company in Bellevue, Washington, founded in 2009, whose ICI platform uses AI for contract lifecycle management and is used by a third of the Fortune 100.

ICESat-2

ICESat-2, the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2, is a NASA satellite launched in 2018 that measures the height of ice sheets, sea ice, and forests from orbit.

Ichiro Takeuchi

Ichiro Takeuchi is a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, where he chairs Materials Science and Engineering and pioneered combinatorial materials synthesis and elastocaloric solid-state cooling.

Ichthys Gas Pipeline

The Ichthys Gas Export Pipeline is a 42-inch subsea gas pipeline about 890 kilometers long, running from the Browse Basin off Western Australia to Darwin.

Ichthys LNG project

The Ichthys LNG project is a liquefied natural gas development operated by Japan's INPEX, drawing gas from the Ichthys field off Western Australia and processing it near Darwin since 2018.

Icing conditions

Icing conditions are atmospheric conditions in which ice can form on an aircraft in flight, arising when supercooled droplets in cloud or precipitation strike a below-freezing surface.

ICloud

iCloud, also known as Apple iCloud, is Apple's consumer cloud service, launched free in 2011 as the successor to MobileMe, storing and syncing photos, files, backups, and passwords across Apple devices.

ICMA Green Bond Principles

The ICMA Green Bond Principles are voluntary guidelines issued by the International Capital Market Association in 2014-era form, updated June 2025, promoting transparency in green bond issuance.

ICO (file format)

ICO is a Microsoft Windows file format that stores several images of one icon at different sizes and color depths, used for icons and website favicons.

ICOCA (イコカ)

ICOCA (イコカ) is a contactless IC fare card from West Japan Railway Company, launched in 2003, used on trains and buses and as electronic money.

ICOM IC-7110

The Icom IC-7110 is an all-mode amateur radio transceiver covering HF through 430 MHz, unveiled as the successor to the IC-7100 at Ham Fair 2026 in Tokyo.

Icon (computing)

In computing, an icon is a small pictographic image representing a program, file, or command, acted on by clicking rather than typing. It is one of the four elements of the graphical user interface.

ICON A5

The ICON A5 is a two-seat, single-engine amphibious light sport aircraft built by ICON Aircraft of Vacaville, California, with folding wings, a ballistic parachute, and a spin-resistant airframe.