| kaċċa |
hunting (The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals, regarded as a sport) |
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| kaċċa |
hunting |
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| kaċċa / nsib bin-nases |
trapping (To catch an animal in a mechanical device or enclosed place or pit) |
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| kaċċa għall-baleni |
whaling (Catching whales to use as food or for their oil, etc. Whales are the largest mammals still in existence. They are caught mainly for their oils, though in some case for food. Some species of whale have become extinct because of overexploitation and the population of many of the existing species is dangerously low. Commercial whaling is severely restricted) |
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| kaċċa għall-baleni |
whaling |
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| kaċċa illegali |
poaching (To catch game, fish, etc. illegally by trespassing on private property) |
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| kadmju |
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) |
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| kalċju |
calcium (A malleable silvery-white metallic element of the alkaline hearth group; the fifth most abundant element in the earth crust, occurring especially as forms of calcium carbonate. It is an essential constituent of bones and teeth and is used as a deoxidizer in steel) |
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| Kalandra |
calandra lark |
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| kalibrar |
calibration (To mark the scale of a measuring instrument so that readings can be made in appropriate units) |
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| kalibrar ta' strumenti ta' kejl |
calibration of measuring equipment (The determination or rectification of, according to an accepted standard, the graduation of any instrument giving quantitative measurements) |
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| kalkara rotatorja |
rotary kiln |
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| kalkara tal-funderija |
blast furnace (A tall, cylindrical smelting furnace for reducing iron ore to pig iron; the blast of air blown through solid fuel increases the combustion rate) |
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| kalkolu |
calculation (The act, process or result of calculating) |
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| kalkolu ta' dispersjoni |
dispersion calculation (The calculation of pollutant dispersion is based on the use of air dispersion models that mathematically simulate atmospheric conditions and behaviour. Dispersion models can provide concentration or deposition estimates and can be used to evaluate both existing and hypothetical emissions scenarios) |
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| kamin tal-kontaminant |
pollutant pathway (The retraceable route of a pollutant, from its source, through its interactions with the environment, and finally to its effect upon a target ecosystem or target organisms) |
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| kamin tal-pestiċida |
pesticide pathway (The specific or known route or vector of any chemical substance released into the environment to prevent, destroy or mitigate any pest that is directly or indirectly detrimental to harvest crops and other human interests) |
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| kamp |
camp (1. A place where tents, cabins, or other temporary structures are erected for the use of military troops, for training soldiers, etc. 2. Tents, cabins, etc., used as temporary lodgings by a group of travellers, holiday-makers, Scouts, Gypsies, etc.) |
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| kamp għall-vaganzi |
holiday camp (A place providing accommodation, recreational facilities, etc. for holiday-makers) |
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| kamp tal-fluss |
flow field (The velocity and the density of a fluid as functions of position and time) |
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