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Terms for subject Environment (8332 entries)
uaireanta oibre working hours (The time devoted to gainful employment or job-related activities, usually calculated as hours per day or per week)
ualach criticiúil critical load (The maximum load that a given system can tolerate before failing)
ualach fuíolluisce waste water load (The amount of spent or used water, often containing dissolved and suspended matter, that is found in a stream or some other body of water)
ualach inteachtaíochta immission load (The total amount of immissions introduced in a given environment)
ualach leanúnach continuous load (The amount or quantity of polluting material found in a transporting agent that flows at a steady rate, in contrast to a sudden or dramatic influx)
ualach ó mhiotal trom heavy metal load (The amount of stress put on an ecosystem by heavy metal pollution released into it)
ualach salainn salt load
ualach tobann sudden load (Sudden immission in considerable amount of one or more pollutants in the atmosphere, in a water body or in the soil)
ualach truailleáin pollutant load
ualach truailleán pollutant load
ualach truailleán pollutant load (The amount of polluting material that a transporting agent, such as a stream, a glacier, or the wind, is actually carrying at a given time)
ualach truaillithe pollution load (The amount of stress placed upon an ecosystem by pollution, physical or chemical, released into it by man-made or natural means)
ualú ithreach soil loading (In soil mechanics and civil engineering the term is used to denote the increased weight brought to bear on the ground surface)
uas-aga imchoimeáid maximum holding time
uas-leibhéal incheadaithe maximum allowable concentration
uasluach limit value (A workplace exposure criterion or standard that determines if a facility or building has a concentration of a substance to which most workers can be exposed without harmful or adverse effects)
uasteocht imchoimeáid maximum holding temperature
uathéiceolaíocht autoecology (That part of ecology which deals with individual species and their reactions to environmental factors)
ubh egg (A large, female sex cell enclosed in a porous, calcareous or leathery shell, produced by birds and reptiles)
údarás áitiúil local authority (The power of a government agency or its administrators to administer and implement laws and government policies for a city, town or small district)