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Terms for subject Environment (24829 entries)
krautartige Pflanzen herbaceous plants
krautige Pflanze herbaceous plant
Krebse crab
krebserregende Wirkung carcinogenesis
Krebskrankheit cancer
Krebskrankheit cancer (Any malignant cellular tumour including carcinoma and sarcoma. It encompasses a group of neoplastic diseases in which there is a transformation of normal body cells into malignant ones, probably involving some change in the genetic material of the cells, possibly as a result of faulty repair of damage to the cell caused by carcinogenic agents or ionizing radiation)
Krebsrisiko cancer risk
Krebsrisiko cancer risk (The probability that exposure to some agent or substance will adversely transform cells to replicate and form a malignant tumor)
Kredit credit (The financial facility or system by which goods and services are provided in return for deferred, instead of immediate, payment)
Kredithilfe credit assistance
Kredithilfe credit assistance (The help and support from banks and other financial institutions in providing money or goods without requiring present payment)
Kreditpolitik credit policy (An official course of action adopted by a business, financial institution or state to regulate, restrict or increase deferred payment arrangements for goods, services or money)
Kreide chalk (A soft, pure, earthy, fine-textured, usually white to light gray or buff limestone of marine origin, consisting almost wholly (90-99%) of calcite, formed mainly by shallow-water accumulation of calcareous tests of floating microorganisms (chiefly foraminifers) and of comminuted remains of calcareous algae (such as cocoliths and rhabdoliths), set in a structureless matrix of very finely crystalline calcite. The rock is porous, somewhat friable, and only slightly coherent. It may include the remains of bottom-dwelling forms (e.g. ammonites, echinoderms, and pelecypods), and nodules of chert and pyrite. The best known and most widespread chalks are of Cretaceous age, such as those exposed in cliffs on both sides of the English Channel)
Kreiselbelüfter carousel oxidation ditch
Kreislauf-Technologie closed-loop technology
Kreislauferkrankung cardiovascular disease
Kreislaufschliessung closed-loop processes/closing recirculation loops
Kreislaufwirtschaft life-cycle management
Kreislaufwirtschaft recycling
Kreislaufwirtschaft life-cycle management (Management of all the stages involved in the life of a product such as raw materials acquisition, manufacturing, distribution and retail, use and re-use and maintenance, recycling and waste management, in order to create less environmentally harmful products)