Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The contamination of the atmosphere by noxious gases and particulates.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pollution of the atmosphere
Examples
“We are both founding members of the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, a collaboration including the United States, Japan, China and India to address energy, climate change and air pollution issues.”
“When Jan and David drove into those smoky Montana fires, they were steering into a chemical path of burning trees and nearly two dozen homes and other freestanding structures—a superintensified kind of air pollution made up of what are known in the scientific world as “microparticles.””
“The objectives of the Santa Monica Freeway Diamond Lane project were to improve traffic flow, lower gasoline consumption, and lessen air pollution due to auto exhaust a major problem in smoggy Los Angeles at the time.”
“Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis or lupus who breathe in heavy particles of air pollution for a year or more face a 22-percent increase in their risk of dying from their autoimmune disease.”
“Reduction in fine particulate air pollution and mortality: Extended follow-up of the Harvard Six Cities study.”
“This study showed a direct cause and effect link between exposure to fine-particle air pollution and the development of atherosclerosis, commonly known as hardening of the arteries.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘air pollution’.
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Up In The Air @ Wordnik
List of words, terms, and phrases pertaining to or referencing anything that lives, traverses, moves in, uses, or otherwise occupies the space above the ground we walk on. Words and phrases contain...
aeroallergen, aerial, aerial mapping, aerial root, aerobe, aerobiology, aerobioscope, aelophilous, anemotropism, anemoclastic, anafront, antitrades and 273 more...
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POL - issues
emergency services, abortion, accounting reform, addiction, affirmative action, agriculture policy, AIDS, air pollution, air quality, alcohol abuse, drug trafficking, trafficking in hu... and 200 more...
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TRAN - general terms
The vocabulary of transport policy
accident rate, cabotage, carriage of goods, carriage of passe..., carrier, co-modality, common policy in ..., complete the inte..., cross-trade, electric motor, employment and wo..., enhance safety and 176 more...
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
AA battery, aa lava, aapa mire, abandon the project, abandon the sewer..., abandoned car, abandoned dyke, abandoned farm, abandoned field, abandoned industr..., abandoned industr..., abandoned land and 5386 more...
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
abiota, aborigines, absorptive capacity, acceptable daily ..., acclimation, acid precipitation, acquired by weeds..., active solar heating, acute, adaptation, additives, aerosol and 447 more...
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TRAN - TEN-T
Trans-European Tr..., TEN-T, social and territ..., accessibility, Maastricht Treaty, European Council ..., financial and non..., TEN Financial Reg..., Cohesion Fund, European Regional..., ERDF, European Investme... and 186 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir We can all breathe easy. Nobody listed this term/phrase on Wordnik until 5/1/2010. Happy May Day, all. May 1, 2010