mitigation — Słownik języka angielskiego

Rzeczownik

1. A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.

   Użycie

   • policzalne
   • niepoliczalne

   Wyrazy powiązane

   mitigatemitigatingmitigant

   Przykłady

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   Two golden hours, in which the astonishing news of the intended party was revealed to Louisa, with all of its contrivances, expenses, and mitigations, so far as they were elucidated, were given and said to be "done in her honour;"...

   One possible drought mitigation strategy for Afghanistan is to divert excess water from water-rich river basins to water-scarce river basins in cases where this is technologically, economically and environmentally feasible.

   Much of the arable land acquired by HS2 is being used for mitigation planting, in an attempt to achieve the goal set by HS2 Ltd for Phase 1, which will mean there should be no measurable loss of biodiversity after construction of the line compared with what was there before.

   Its [the gantry crane's] noise-mitigation characteristics even include a soft-landing feature to minimise the noise when containers are lowered.

Rzeczownik

1. to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

   Synonimy

   extenuationpalliation

   Terminy szersze

   decreasediminutionreductionstep-down

2. a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

   Synonimy

   extenuation

   Terminy szersze

   excusealibiexculpationself-justification

3. the action of lessening in severity or intensity

   Synonimy

   moderation

   Terminy szersze

   decreasediminutionreductionstep-down

   Przykłady

   the object being control or moderation of economic depressions