Dictionary of environmental engineering and wastewater management

This dictionary has been produced by trawling through a very wide range of international and national texts, legislation and treaties for technical terms. The compilers have also taken industry-specific terms. The first area of selection provides a definition for all technical terms used in the documents. The second area provides explanations of terms that might be seen as jargon. There are about 4,500 terms in the dictionary, and some terms have sub-terms. Given the thoroughness of the term selection many quite common and widely known terms such as Fahrenheit are included. Actually, this is a useful term because most people...