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| Terms for subject Environment (6532 entries) |
| bang sonic | sonic boom (A noise caused by a shock wave that emanates from an aircraft or other object traveling at or above sonic velocity) | |
| banking | banking (Transactional business between any bank, an institution for safeguarding, exchanging, receiving and lending money, and that bank's clients or customers) | |
| baraj | dam (Structure constructed across a watercourse or stream channel) | |
| baraj de acumulare | storage dam (A barrier of concrete, earth, etc., built across a river to create a body of water) | |
| baraj flotant antipetrol | oil boom (A floating device used to contain oil on a body of water. Once the boom has been inflated, it is towed downwind of the oil slick and formed into a U-shape; under the influence of wind, the oil becomes trapped within the boom. Skimming equipment travels into the boom enclosure and the oil is pumped into containers) | |
| barieră comercială | 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) | |
| barieră de zgomot | 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) | |
| bariu | barium (A soft silvery-white metallic element of the alkaline earth group. It is used in bearing alloys and compounds are used as pigments) | |
| bastardizarea faunei | bastardisation of fauna (One of the possible consequences of the introduction of animal species in an area where they are not indigenous. Such translocation of species always involves an element of risk if not of serious danger. Newly arrived species may be highly competitive with or otherwise adversely affect native species and communities) | |
| bastardizarea florei | bastardisation of flora (One of the possible consequences of the introduction of plant species in an area where they are not indigenous) | |
| baterie | battery (A series of cells, each containing the essentials for producing voltaic electricity, connected together) | |
| baterie alcalină | alkaline battery (A primary cell that uses an alkaline electrolyte, usually potassium hydroxide, and delivers about 1.5 volts at much higher current rates than the common carbon-zinc cell. Also known as alkaline-manganese cell) | |
| baterie electrică | electric battery (A direct-current voltage source made up of one or more units that convert chemical, thermal, nuclear, or solar energy into electrical energy) | |
| baterie tip "nasture" | button-cell battery (A tiny, circular battery made for a watch or for other microelectric applications) | |
| baterie tip pastilă | button-cell battery | |
| batracian | amphibian (A class of vertebrate animals characterized by a moist, glandular skin, gills at some stage of development, and no amnion during the embryonic stage) | |
| băutură | beverage (Any one of various liquids for drinking, usually excluding water) | |
| bază | base (Any chemical species, ionic or molecular, capable of accepting or receiving a proton (hydrogen ion) from another substance; the other substance acts as an acid in giving of the proton; the other ion is a base; chemical) | |
| baza acoperirii costului | cost recovery basis (A standard used to provide reimbursement to individuals or organizations for any incurred expense or provided service) | |
| bază de date | data base (A computerized compilation of data, facts and records that is organized for convenient access, management and updating) |