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 Translation for 'shelf' from English to Danish
NOUN   a shelf | shelves
SYNO ledge | shelf
shelfhylde {fk}
geogr.
continental shelf
kontinentalsokkel {fk}
shelf lifeholdbarhed {fk} [fødevarer]
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Translation for 'shelf' from English to Danish

shelf
hylde {fk}

continental shelf
kontinentalsokkel {fk}geogr.
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shelf life
holdbarhed {fk} [fødevarer]
Usage Examples English
  • The Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition is a biogeographic region of Australia's coastal and continental shelf waters.
  • A floating shelf is a form of shelf with its wall fixings hidden within the shelf board, with no visible supporting brackets.
  • The Chukchi Sea Shelf or Chukchi Shelf is the westernmost part of the continental shelf of the United States and the easternmost part of the continental shelf of Russia.
  • TEIS can also refer to the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, a major ice shelf in Antarctica.
  • The first shelf-stable formulation of ranch dressing, created in 1983, had a shelf life of 150 days.

  • Its most dramatic example of glacier retreat is the loss of large sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.
  • Around midday, when incoming sunlight is at its maximum intensity on the shallow shelf, the number of fish on the shelf decreases.
  • The Amery Ice Shelf is the third largest ice shelf in Antarctica, after the Ross Ice Shelf and the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf.
  • Each plane of the timeswitch occupies one shelf in a three-shelf group – the lower shelf is plane 0, the upper shelf is plane 1 and the middle shelf is occupied by up to 32 DLTs (Digital Line Terminations).
  • Spain is an eminently maritime country with a long continental shelf running along the entire periphery of the Spanish coast.

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