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| Terms for subject Environment (7733 entries) |
| údarás feidearálach | federal authority (The power of a central government agency or its administrators to carry out the terms of the law creating the agency as well as to administer and implement regulations, laws and government policies) | |
| údarás reachtach | legislative authority (The power of a deliberative assembly of persons or delegates to bring a bill, resolution or special act to an official, legally binding status) | |
| údarás réigiúnach | regional authority (The power of a government agency or its administrators to administer and implement laws and government policies applicable to a specific geographical area, usually falling under the jurisdiction of two or more states) | |
| údarás rialaithe | controlling authority (The power of a person or an organized assemblage of persons to manage, direct, superintend, restrict, regulate, govern, administer or oversee) | |
| údarás rialaithe uisce | water regulatory authority (The power of a government agency or its administrators to administer and implement regulations, laws and government policies relating to the preservation and protection of water resources) | |
| údarú | authorisation (An official certification of competence or a transfer of the right and power to act, including permission from government to use state funds for a particular program or project) | |
| údarú speisialta | special authorisation (An exceptional granting of power or permission or a legislative act authorizing money to be spent on government programs) | |
| uigeacht ithreach | soil texture (1. Refers to the relative proportions of the various size groups (sand, silt and clay) of the individual soil grains in a mass of soil. 2. Classification of soil by the proportion and graduations of the three size groups of soil grains, i.e., sand, silt and clay, present in the soil) | |
| uigeacht tírdhreacha | landscape texture | |
| úinéireacht | ownership (Collection of rights to use and enjoy property, including right to transmit it to others. The complete dominion, title, or proprietary right in a thing or claim) | |
| uirbiú | urbanization (The state of being or becoming a community with urban characteristics) | |
| uisce | water (The liquid that forms streams, lakes, and seas, and issues from the ground in springs; geographic) | |
| uisce a chur i mbaol | water endangering (Can be caused by a variety of means, e.g. farm pollution from animal wastes and silage liquor (liquors from green leaf cattle food which has had molasses added to promote fermentation and preservation; they are highly polluting and can be a seasonal cause of fish deaths in small streams), leachate from landfill sites, and spoil heaps, solvent discharge to sewers or to land and inadequate sewage treatment works) | |
| uisce a spáráil | water saving (Management of water resources aiming at ensuring the continued availability of water for human uses and natural ecosystems) | |
| uisce abhann | river water (Water which flows in a channel from high ground to low ground and ultimately to a lake or the sea, except in a desert area where it may dwindle away to nothing) | |
| uisce báistí | rain water (Water which falls as rain from clouds) | |
| uisce báistí aigéadach | acid rain water | |
| uisce cósta | coastal water (Coastal waters are typically characterized by a shallow continental shelf, gently sloping seaward to a continental slope, which drops relatively abruptly to the deep ocean. The proximity of coastal water to land also influences the water circulation. In the vicinity of freshwater inflows, the nearshore circulation is altered by the presence of density-driven motions. Coastal waters are under enormous environmental stress, caused by a wide range of factors including pollution and the destruction and deterioration of marine habitats) | |
| uisce diméine | demesnial water (A body of water that is owned and maintained by a national governmental body or agency) | |
| uisce draenála | drainage water (Incidental surface waters from diverse sources such as rainfall, snow melt or permafrost melt) |