impingement encroachment impact | influencing strongly, they resented the impingement of American values on European culture |
shock impact | the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat, the armies met in the shock of battle |
impact printer | a printer that prints by mechanical impacts |
ecology bionomics environmental science | the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment |
impact | the striking of one body against another |
Environmental Protection Agency EPA | an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment |
Council on Environmental Policy | the executive agency that advises the President on protecting the environment |
domestic partner significant other spousal equivalent spouse equivalent | a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship |
impact wallop | a forceful consequence, a strong effect, the book had an important impact on my thinking, the book packs a wallop |
significant digit significant figure | any digit of a number that is known with certainty, any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value), he calculated the answer to four significant figures |
environmental condition | the state of the environment |
affect impact bear upon bear on touch on touch | have an effect upon, Will the new rules affect me? |
impact | press or wedge together, pack together |
significant substantial | fairly large, won by a substantial margin |
meaning(a) pregnant significant | rich in significance or implication, a meaning look |
significant important | important in effect or meaning, a significant change in tax laws, a significant change in the Constitution, a significant contribution, significant details, statistically significant |
significant | too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation, the interaction effect is significant at the .level, no significant difference was found |
environmental | concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment, environmental pollution |
environmental | of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings, environmental factors |