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| Terms for subject Environment (5171 entries) |
| pendling utenom rushtiden | off-peak commuting (Traveling back and forth regularly over some distance, outside of the hours of maximum traffic frequency) | |
| pengemarked | money market (A financial market that trades Treasury bills, commercial paper and other short-term financial instruments. This market is often used by businesses when they need short-term funds to bridge the gap between paying operating costs and collecting revenue from product sales. As such, the term "money" in money market indicates that businesses are using highly liquid instruments to raise the money need for operating expenses) | |
| pengeøkonomi | monetary economics (The study, policies or system of institutions and procedures by which a country or region's commerce is supplied with notes, coins, bank deposits or other equivalent mediums of exchange) | |
| pengeteori | theory of money (A coherent group of general propositions about the supply and demand of money, interest rates, the flow of money's influence on the overall economy or the policies that should be adopted by institutions controlling the money supply) | |
| pensum | curriculum (The aggregate of courses of study provided in a particular school, college, university, adult education program, technical institution or some other educational program) | |
| pentaklorfenol | pentachlorophenol (One of the universally toxic phenolic compounds, is a general purpose agent that is used as a fungicide, herbicide and molluscicide, particularly in Egypt where it is used to control snails that carry the larval human blood flukes that cause schistosomiasis. It is also used in wood preservatives and is very poisonous) | |
| perifert parkområde | peripheral park area (A zone of the park where scientific research is allowed. Beyond this there is a buffer zone which protects the whole reserve from agricultural, industrial and urban development) | |
| perifyton | periphyton (A plant or animal organism which is attached or clings to surfaces of leaves or stems of rooted plants above the bottom stratum) | |
| periodisk støy | intermittent noise (Noise occurring at regular or irregular intervals) | |
| periurbant område | periurban space (Any expanse of land or region located on the outskirts of a city or town) | |
| perkloretylen | perchloroethylene (Stable, colorless liquid, nonflammable and nonexplosive, with low toxicity; used as a dry-cleaning and industrial solvent, in pharmaceuticals and medicines, and for metal cleaning) | |
| permafrost-økosystem | permafrost ecosystem (The interacting system of the biological communities and their nonliving environmental surroundings in a climatic region where the subsoil is perennially frozen) | |
| permeabilitet | permeability (The ability of a membrane or other material to permit a substance to pass through it) | |
| peroksyacetylnitrat | peroxyacetylnitrate (A pollutant created by the action of sunlight on hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides in the air. An ingredient of smog) | |
| persistens | persistence (The capacity of a substance to remain chemically stable. This is an important factor in estimating the environmental effects of substances discharged into the environment. Certain toxic substances (e.g., cyanides) have a low persistence, whereas other less immediately toxic substances (e.g., many organochlorines) have a high persistence and may therefore produce more serious effects) | |
| persistent organisk forurensende stoff | persistent organic pollutant | |
| personbil | private car (Transportation mean belonging to an individual person) | |
| personlig ansvar | personal responsibility | |
| pesticid | pesticide (A general term for chemical agents that are used in order to kill unwanted plants, animals pests or disease-causing fungi, and embracing insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, nematicides, etc. Some pesticides have had widespread disruptive effects among non-target species) | |
| pesticidmetabolisme | metabolism of pesticides (The sum of chemical reactions, including both synthesis and breakdown, that occurs in substances or mixtures intended to prevent, destroy or mitigate pests that are directly or indirectly detrimental to harvest crops and other humans interests) |