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| Terms for subject Environment (5171 entries) |
| sandtak | sand pit (A place where sand is extracted from the ground) | |
| sandutvinning | sand extraction (The extraction of sand by mining for building purposes and for the extraction of heavy minerals such as rutile and zircon) | |
| sanger | songbird (Any passerine bird of the suborder Oscines, having highly developed vocal organs and, in most, a music call) | |
| sanitært utstyr | sanitary fitting (The set of furnishings designed for personal hygiene and the disposal of organic waste) | |
| sanksjon | sanction | |
| sans for naturen | feeling for nature (A consciousness, sensibility or sympathetic perception of the physical world and its scenery in their uncultivated state) | |
| såpe | soap (A cleansing agent, manufactured in bars, granules, flakes, or liquid form, made from a mixture of the sodium salts of various fatty acids of natural oils and fats) | |
| sårbar art | vulnerable species (IUCN, Species which is likely to become endangered unless protective measures are taken) | |
| satelittbilde | satellite image (A pictorial representation of data projected onto a two-dimensional grid of individual picture elements (pixels) and acquired from a human-made vessel placed in orbit round a planet, moon or star) | |
| satellitt | satellite (An object that orbits around a larger one. Artificial satellites orbiting the Earth are used for communications, the gathering of military intelligence, the monitoring of weather and other environmental phenomena, etc.) | |
| satellittregnskap | satellite account (A separate financial record or statement that discloses financial activity in a particular area and supplements existing financial records) | |
| sauedyr | ovine (Horned ruminant mammals raised in many breeds for wool, edible flesh, or skin) | |
| schistosomiasose | schistosomiasis (A disease in which humans are parasitized by any of three species of blood flukes: Schistosoma mansoni, S. haematobium, and S. japonicum; adult worms inhabit the blood vessels) | |
| sediment | sediment (Any material transported by water which will ultimately settle to the bottom after the water loses its transporting power) | |
| sedimentasjon | sedimentation (industrial process, The separation of an insoluble solid from a liquid in which it is suspended by settling under the influence of gravity or centrifugation) | |
| sedimenteringsbasseng | settling tank (A tank into which a two-phase mixture is fed and the entrained solids settle by gravity during storage) | |
| sedimenteringsbasseng | sedimentation basin (A basin in which suspended matter is removed either by quiescent settlement or by continuous flow at high velocity and extended retention time to allow deposition) | |
| sedimenteringsbasseng | sedimentary basin (A geomorphic feature of the earth in which the surface has subsided for a prolonged time, including deep ocean floors, intercontinental rifts and elevated and interior drainage basins) | |
| sedimentmobilisering | sediment mobilisation (The transport or setting in motion by wind or water of insoluble particulate matter) | |
| sedimentologi | sedimentology (The scientific study of sedimentary rocks and of the processes by which they were formed; the description, classification, origin, and interpretation of sediments) |