Fabrication-informed design embed fabrication-related requirements in the design process, instead of post-processing a design that needs fabrication rationalization.
A collection of attributes serving to distinguish one part of the glacier from others; by extension, the part of the glacier so distinguished. The term, originally Latin for 'face, outward appearance'
, was borrowed from geology. Examples of diagnostic attributes include ice lenses in the firn, indicating refreezing and therefore the percolation facies; the absence of such lenses, possibly suggesting the dry snow facies; or the seasonal exposure of glacier ice, indicating the ablation facies. In glaciology the term zone is equivalent and is now more common.