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sink

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EKI Combined Dictionary 2026

Last modified 24.05.2024

Meanings

American English veekraani alla paigaldatav kausilaadne anum, mis on ühenduses kanalisatsioonitorustikuga
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EKI terminibaas Esterm

ID 716090 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain Environment - Environmental Protection
  • neeldaja tähendab mis tahes protsessi, tegevust või mehhanismi, mis seob atmosfäärist kasvuhoonegaasi, aerosooli või kasvuhoonegaasi lähteainet
neeldaja
sink
Usage examples
  • ... all Member States and the Community are Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which, from its entry into force on 21 March 1994, commits all Parties to develop, periodically update, publish and report to the Conference of the Parties national inventories of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, using comparable methodologies agreed upon by the Conference of the Parties ...

EKI terminibaas Esterm

ID 719511 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain inland waterway traffic
põhja minema preferred
founder preferred
sink
põhja minema preferred
uppuma
founder preferred
Usage examples
  • Vessels must be provided with at least the following equipment: ... (b) emergency lights, independent of the vessel's main power circuit, to replace, if needed the lights required by the above regulations for vessels halted, aground or foundered ...
sink
go down

Geomorfoloogia terminibaas

ID 464371 Last modified 13.09.2019
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Domain karst and groundwater erosional landforms
langatuslehter
karstilehter
sinkhole
sink-hole
  • lehtri-, lohu- või liua-kujuline, kuni mitmekümne meetrise (harvem üle 100 m) läbimõõduga suletud negatiivne pinnavorm
  • bowl-shaped, funnel-shaped, or vertical-sided depressions in the ground caused by karst processes (chemical dissolution of rocks) or suffosion (erosion of non-cohesive fines out of soil) induced collapse of voids in the ground; may vary in size from 1 to several hundred m both in diameter and depth.
Good to know
  • Võivad kujuneda karstinähtuse (kivimite lahustumine põhja- või pinnavee poolt) või suffosiooni (peenema settematerjali ärakanne) tõttu tekkinud maasiseste tühemike lagede kokkuvajumise tagajärjel.
langatuslehter
karstilehter
sinkhole
sink-hole

Geomorfoloogia terminibaas

ID 464381 Last modified 13.09.2019
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Domain karst and groundwater erosional landforms
karst sinkhole
sinkhole
  • lehtri-, lohu- või liua-kujuline, kuni mitmekümne meetrise (harvem üle 100m) läbimõõduga negatiivne pindmise karsti pinnavorm
  • is a bowl-shaped, funnel-shaped, or vertical-sided depression in the ground caused by karst processes (chemical dissolution of rocks) induced collapse of the surface layer; may vary in size from 1 to 600 m both in diameter and depth. Can be devided: subsidence -, erosional -, mereged sinkholes.
Good to know
  • Jagunevad: langatus-, uhte- ja liitlehtrid.
karst sinkhole
sinkhole

Purjetamise terminibaas

ID 470204 Last modified 24.10.2023
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valamu
sink

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