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| Terms for subject Environment (6130 entries) |
| jed | poison (A substance which, when ingested, inhaled, or absorbed, or when applied to, injected into, or developed within the body, in relatively small amounts, may cause injury, harm, or destruction to organs, tissue, or life) | |
| jedlý tuk | edible fat (An oil that can be eaten as a food or food accessory) | |
| jednogeneračný dom | single family dwelling (An unattached dwelling unit inhabited by an adult person plus one or more related persons) | |
| jednotka miery | control measure | |
| jednotka overeného zníženia emisií | verified emissions reduction unit | |
| jednotka overeného zníženia emisií | verified emission reduction | |
| jednotka zníženia emisií | emission reduction unit | |
| jemný prach | fine dust (Air-borne solid particles, originating from human activity and natural sources, such as wind-blown soil and fires, that eventually settle through the force of gravity, and can cause injury to human and other animal respiratory systems through excessive inhalation) | |
| jód | iodine (A nonmetallic halogen element; the poisonous, corrosive dark plates or granules are readily sublimed; insoluble in water, soluble in common solvents; used as germicide and antiseptic, in dyes, tinctures, and pharmaceuticals, in engraving lithography, and as a catalyst and analytical reagent) | |
| juh Atlantického oceánu | South Atlantic Ocean (An ocean south of the equator between the eastern coast of South America and the western coast of Africa that extends southward to the Antarctic continent, including the Drake Passage, South Sandwich Islands and Falkand Islands) | |
| juh Tichého oceánu | South Pacific Ocean (An ocean south of the equator between Southeast Asia and Australia in the Eastern hemisphere and South America in the Western hemisphere, extending southward to the Antarctic region, including the Tasman and Coral seas and numerous islands, such as Galapagos, Solomon, Easter, Samoa, Fiji and Tonga islands, and also New Zealand and its islands) | |
| juhovýchodná Ázia | Southeast Asia (A geographic region of continental Asia, south of China, west of the South Pacific Ocean, north of the Indian Ocean, and east of the Bay of Bengal and the Indian subcontinent, including the Indochina Peninsula, the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian and Philippine Archipelagos, and countries such as Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) | |
| jurisdikcia | jurisdiction (The power of a court to hear and decide a case or make a certain order) | |
| jurisprudencia | jurisprudence (The science or philosophy of law) | |
| justícia | justice (The correct application of law as opposed to arbitrariness) | |
| južná Afrika | Southern Africa (A geographic region of the African continent astride the Tropic of Capricorn, including Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and also the Kalahari Desert, Zambezi River and Orange River) | |
| Južná Amerika | South America (A continent in the southern part of the western hemisphere, astride the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north and between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama, and divided into twelve countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela) | |
| južná Ázia | Southern Asia (A geographic region of the Asian continent bordered in the north by the countries of Central Asia and in the south by the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, extending westward into Iran and eastward into China, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, Bhutan and Sri Lanka) | |
| kábel | cable (Strands of insulated electrical conductors laid together, usually around a central core, and wrapped in a heavy insulation) | |
| kadmium | cadmium (One of the toxic heavy metal which has caused deaths and permanent illnesses in a series of major pollution incidents around the world. Cadmium has no useful biological purpose. However, it has wide industrial applications. It has been used for decades in metal plating to prevent corrosion, in rechargeable batteries and as a pigment in certain plastics and paints. Special care is taken in the industrial smelting of ores and subsequent handling of cadmium, because occupational exposure is known to have caused heart, chest and kidney disorders. Environmental health problems have come from exposure to various sources of pollution, Cd) |