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| Terms for subject Environment (6716 entries) |
| bank ta' kampjuni ambjentali | environmental specimen bank (Places in which selected specimens (fish, mussels, milk, soil sample and human tissue, etc.) are stored without being allowed to decompose) | |
| bankarju | banking (Transactional business between any bank, an institution for safeguarding, exchanging, receiving and lending money, and that bank's clients or customers) | |
| bankina/ mogħdija għall-mixi | footpath (A narrow path for walkers only) | |
| baqqa | bug (Any of the suborder Heteroctera, having piercing and sucking mouthparts, specialized as a beak) | |
| barju | barium (A soft silvery-white metallic element of the alkaline earth group. It is used in bearing alloys and compounds are used as pigments) | |
| barra mis-sît | off-site (Activities taking place or located away from the site) | |
| barriera | quarry (An open or surface working or excavation for the extraction of building stone, ore, coal, gravel, or minerals) | |
| barriera kontra l-istorbju | noise barrier (Barriers for reducing the propagation of sound: they are widely used in industry and alongside roads and railways to shield receivers from noise sources. Barriers will not reduce the noise on the receivers side, but will increase it, unless the barrier is also covered in absorbing material) | |
| barriera ta' skollijiet | barrier reef (An elongated accumulation of coral lying at low-tide level parallel to the coast but separated from it by a wide and deep lagoon or strait. The coral is thought to have formed initially on a flat surface: then as the sea-level rose in post-glacial times, thereby submerging the irregular wave-cut platform, the coral growth kept pace with the rising ocean level, so creating the great thickness witnessed today in such places as the Great Barrier Reef off the East coast of Queensland, Australia. This stretches for more than 1900 km and varies in width from about 30 km to 150 km) | |
| barriera taħt l-art | underground quarry (Quarry located below the surface of the earth) | |
| barriera/ restrizzjonijiet kummerċjali | trade barrier (An artificial restraint on the free exchange of goods and services between nations. The most common types of trade barriers are tariffs, quotas, and exchange control. Such obstacles to trade are usually imposed by a country that wishes to protect domestic products in their home market against foreign competition, better its terms of trade, reduce domestic unemployment, or improve its balance-of-payments position. The raising of trade barriers by one country often provokes other nations position. Generally, the effect of a trade barrier is to reduce the volume of trade while increasing the domestic price of the protected good. Thus, it results in a relatively inefficient allocation of world resources and reduces the level of total world income and production) | |
| Baruża | red-necked phalarope | |
| bastiment | ship (A vessel propelled by engines or sails for navigating on the water, especially a large vessel that can not be carried aboard another, as distinguished from a boat) | |
| bastiment għall-irkupru taż-żejt | oil recovery vessel (Boats used for recovering oil spilled at sea from oil tankers. The recommended procedure is to contain and physically recover the spill with or without the use of adsorbents. This approach entails three processes: 1. confinement of the spill by spill booms; 2. recovery of the spill by sorbing agents; 3. physical removal of the contained oil by oil pick-up devices) | |
| bastiment tas-sajd | fishing vessel | |
| bastimenti b'buq doppju | twin-hull craft (Oil tank vessels provided with a double-hull to meet the regulatory safety requirements in oil transportation. Requirements include minimum values for depths and breadth of double bottoms. Also called double-hull tank vessel) | |
| batteri | bacterium (Group of single-cell micro-organisms, the smallest of the living organisms. Some are vital to sustain life, while others are responsible for causing highly dangerous human diseases, such as anthrax, tetanus and tuberculosis. Bacteria are found everywhere, in the soil, water and air) | |
| batteri tal-ħmieġ tal-imsaren- | faecal bacterium (Bacteria contained in human and animal faeces) | |
| batteriċida | bactericide (An agent that destroys bacteria) | |
| batterija | battery (A series of cells, each containing the essentials for producing voltaic electricity, connected together) |