English-Portuguese translations for pollution

• poluição
  Deslocar a poluição não é reduzir a poluição. A pollution shift is not a pollution cut.
  Quando reduzimos a poluição do solo, a poluição marinha é reduzida também. When we reduce soil pollution, marine pollution is reduced as well.
  O mesmo acontece relativamente à poluição da água, à poluição pela BSE. The same applies to water pollution and BSE pollution.
• polução
• poluente
  Emissões poluentes provenientes de tractores agrícolas Pollution by agricultural tractors
  Apoiamos as normas mínimas comuns aplicáveis aos poluentes atmosféricos. We support common minimum standards for air pollution.
  Contudo, a carga poluente da água que chega ao Báltico é elevada. The pollution load reaching the Baltic, however, is high.

Definition of pollution

• The desecration of something holy or sacred; defilement, profanation.
• The ejaculation of semen outside of sexual intercourse, ''especially'a nocturnal emission.
• Moral or spiritual corruption; impurity, degradation, defilement.
• Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc.
• Something that pollutes; a pollutant.

Related words

• self-pollution
• antipollution
• photopollution
• depollution
• air pollution
• light pollution
• water pollution
• noise pollution
• soil pollution