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Terms for subject Environment (5949 entries)
diziplinarteko ikerketa interdisciplinary research (The utilisation, combination and coordination of two or more appropriate disciplines, technologies and humanities in an integrated approach toward environmental problems)
doitasunezko mekanika precision engineering (Research and development, design, manufacture and measurement of high accuracy components and systems. It is related to mechanical, electronic, optical and production engineering, physics, chemistry, and computer and materials science)
doktrina doctrine (A rule, principle, theory, or tenet of the law, as the doctrine of merger, the doctrine of relation, etc.; law)
doktrina politiko political doctrine (A policy, position or principle advocated, taught or put into effect concerning the acquisition and exercise of the power to govern or administrate in society)
dokumentazio-indexatze indexing of documentation (A service which creates a special contents list, containing titles, authors, abstracts, subject headings and other information, to describe a large number of publications and to be used in searchable, machine-readable (or printed) look-up tables)
dokumentazio-sistema documentary system (A coordinated assemblage of people, devices or other resources providing written, printed or digitized items that furnish or substantiate information or evidence)
dokumentazio-zentro documentation centre (Centre for assembling, coding, and disseminating recorded knowledge comprehensively treated as an integral procedure, utilizing various techniques for giving documentary information maximum accessibility and usability)
dortoka tortoise (Any herbivorous terrestrial chelonian reptile of the family Testudinidae, of most warm regions, having a heavy dome-shaped shell and clawed limbs)
dosi dose (The amount of test substance administered. Dose is expressed as weight of test substance (g, mg) per unit weight of test animal (e.g., mg/kg), or as weight of food or drinking water)
dosi baliokide equivalent dose (A quantity used in radiation protection, expressing all radiation on a common scale for calculating the effective absorbed dose. The unit of dose equivalent is the rem. which is numerically equal to the absorbed dose in rads multiplied by certain modifying factors such as the quality factor, the distribution factor, etc.)
dosi-efektu erlazio dose-effect relationship (The relation between the quantity of a given substance and a measurable or observable effect)
dosifikazio dosage (The amount of a substance required to produce an effect)
dragatze dredging (Removing solid matter from the bottom of a water area)
drainatze draining (The removal of water from a marshy area by artificial means, e.g. the introduction of drains)
drainatze drainage (1. Removal of groundwater or surface water, or of water from structures, by gravity or pumping. 2. The discharge of water from a soil by percolation (the process by which surface water moves downwards through cracks, joints and pores in soil and rocks))
drainatze-sistema artifizial built drainage system (Collection of open and/or closed drains, together with structures and pumps used to collect and dispose of excess surface or subsurface water)
drainatze-sistema natural natural drainage system
drainatze-ur drainage water (Incidental surface waters from diverse sources such as rainfall, snow melt or permafrost melt)
duna dune (A low mound, ridge, bank, or hill of loose, windblown granular material (generally sand, sometimes volcanic ash), either bare or covered with vegetation, capable of movement from place but always retaining its characteristic shape)
dunen finkatze sand dune fixation (Stabilization of dunes effected by the planting of marram grass (Ammophila arenaria), or rice grass, whose long roots bind the surface layers of sand and so hinder its removal by wind. A larger scale method of dealing with the same problem is by afforestation)