Giant's Causeway

American  

noun

1. a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.

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Giant's Causeway British  

noun

1. a promontory of columnar basalt on the N coast of Northern Ireland, in Antrim: consists of several thousand pillars, mostly hexagonal, that were formed by the rapid cooling of lava and the inward contraction of the lava flow

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Etymology

Origin of Giant's Causeway

First recorded in 1770–80

Example Sentences

The researchers suggest this is because the data used to "train" the AI software model "may not include enough examples of the Giant's Causeway or similar environments, leading the model to generalise incorrectly".

From BBC

They found that "the performance of the object detection model was poor when applied to Giant's Causeway footage, failing to arrive at a plausible count for attendance in this setting".

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Danny tried not to snort, then said, “Giant’s Causeway.”

From Literature

As he flew across the great ocean, he shut his eyes and thought of Giant’s Causeway, of Pili, of the next part of his adventure.

From Literature

The three of them lined up on the pillars of Giant’s Causeway close to the waves, ready to face what was to come.

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