The story
ICE stands for "initial, change, equilibrium", which are the labelled rows of the table.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ICE table
Today it means: A table used for keeping track of the amount of each substance as a chemical or physical change reaches equilibrium, used for setting up an equation to solve for the equilibrium state of the substances or for the equilibrium constant. Full definition →