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Definition: EPA |
EPANoun1. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Agriculture | Environmental Protection Agency. (references) |
Census | Designation for the (Environmental Protection Agency). (references) |
Energy | The Environmental Protection Agency. Afederal agency charged with protecting the environment. (references) |
Geological | Established on December 2, 1970, the EPA is charged with protecting and enhancing the environment for present and future generations to the fullest extent possible under Congressional law with responsibilities including the control of solid waste, pesticides, radiation, and toxic substances, and the abatement of air and water pollution. The EPA coordinates research and antipollution activities with State and local governments, educational institutions, private and public groups, and individuals. For further information, contact: EPA Region V EPA Region VII (Environmental Protection Agency). (references) |
Health | United States Environmental Protection Agency. (references) |
Science | U.S. agency that ensures: Federal environmental laws are implemented and enforced effectively; U.S. policy--both foreign and domestic--fosters the integration of economic development and environmental protection so that economic growth can be sustained over the long term; public and private decisions affecting energy, transportation, agriculture, industry, international trade, and natural resources fully integrate considerations of environmental quality; national efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best available scientific information communicated clearly to the public; everyone in our society recognizes the value of preventing pollution before it is created; people have the information and incentives they need to make environmentally-responsible choices in their daily lives; and schools and community institutions promote environmental stewardship as a national ethic. (Environmental Protection Agency). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EPA | Dutch | Europees Productiviteitsagentschap | N/A |
EPA | English | Erythroid potentiating activity | N/A |
EPA | French | équipement privé d'abonné | Post & Telecom |
EPA | Italian | Acido eicosapentanoico | Chemistry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: EPASynonym: Environmental Protection Agency (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: EPA |
| Non-English Usage: "EPA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Welsh (ape, monkey). |
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When distinct burrow systems are apparent, fleas can be controlled with a duster using 0.5% permethrin, or other EPA registered insecticidal dust. Such actions are taken when epizootic areas are in close proximity to human populations.Credit: CDC. | ![]() | The EPA confined disposal facility.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | |
![]() | A RI EPA vessel was donated for the 1997 transplant operation. The staging area was off Prudence Island.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | The transplant team on the EPA boat after the transplant process.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | See the EPA website for detailed answers to the questions about pesticides used for mosquito control. (references) | |
Business | With the inauguration of President Chen Shui Bian, on May 21, 2000, new leadership at the Taiwan EPA has made resolving Taiwan's industrial waste crisis a top priority for his administration. (references) | |
The main role of the Federal Government, through Environment Australia (the Australian equivalent of the U.S. EPA), is to manage greenhouse responsibilities under agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol. (references) | ||
However, on July 2000, the New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority (NSW EPA) introduced load-based license (LBL) fees. Under LBL fees, companies that are able to reduce their emissions below agreed levels pay a smaller fee. Other states, such as the ACT, Queensland and South Australia, are now considering a similar fee system. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kuwait | The EPA is focussing on the following waste subsectors: refinery sludge in the oil sector, municipal waste, solid hazardous and medical waste, and industrial waste to improve current technology and equipment capabilities. (references) |
Human Rights | United Kingdom | Provisions of the EPA extended under the 2000 Terrorism Act set lower standards for the use of uncorroborated confessions in Northern Ireland than in normal cases, and such confessions have in the past been used as the sole basis for conviction. (references) |
Political Economy | Guyana | Under the EPA legislation, projects that affect the environment must submit an environmental impact assessment in order to gain the necessary EPA approval. (references) |
Trade | Nepal | However, any industry exporting 90 percent or more of its products is entitled to privileges equivalent to those normally provided by an EPA; i.e., no tax, duty or fee is levied on the machinery, tools and raw materials utilized by the industry in manufacturing the export products. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Though this is a time of budget constraints, I have requested for EPA one of the largest percentage budget increases of any agency. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "EPA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 42.14% of the time. "EPA" is used about 140 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 42.14% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Noun (common) | 17.86% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 140 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "EPA": epa-approved. | |
Ending with "EPA": Us-epa. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
epa | 2,783 | epa radon | 14 |
ohio epa | 240 | epa region 9 | 14 |
us epa | 113 | florida epa | 14 |
illinois epa | 95 | epa fuel economy | 13 |
epa certification | 49 | epa logo | 12 |
california epa | 42 | epa region 5 | 12 |
cal epa | 30 | agency environmental epa protection | 12 |
epa job | 26 | texas epa | 12 |
epa dha | 24 | epa government | 11 |
epa test | 22 | epa region 10 | 11 |
epa regulation | 20 | epa region 8 | 11 |
epa ezhire | 20 | epa form | 11 |
epa gas mileage | 19 | epa certification exam | 10 |
epa traktor | 19 | epa mold | 10 |
epa mileage | 19 | epa form r | 10 |
epa report | 18 | 4 epa region | 10 |
epa u.s | 17 | epa grant | 10 |
epa region 6 | 15 | 7 epa region | 10 |
epa pesticide | 15 | georgia epa | 9 |
epa standard | 15 | il epa | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "EPA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beste zur Verfuegung stehende und wirtschaftlich erreichbare Technik (BATEA, best available technology economically achievable, this second set of EPA standards is considered by EPA to be consistent with "Best Available Technology Economically Achievable"(BATEA)for existing plants). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | La migliore tecnologia disponibile ed utilizzabile in modo economico (BATEA, best available technology economically achievable, this second set of EPA standards is considered by EPA to be consistent with "Best Available Technology Economically Achievable"(BATEA)for existing plants). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epaay a melhor tecnologia disponível realizável economicamente (BATEA, best available technology economically achievable, this second set of EPA standards is considered by EPA to be consistent with "Best Available Technology Economically Achievable"(BATEA)for existing plants). (various references) агентство по охране окружающей среды. (various references) mejor tecnología disponible económicamente obtenible (BATEA, best available technology economically achievable, this second set of EPA standards is considered by EPA to be consistent with "Best Available Technology Economically Achievable"(BATEA)for existing plants). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EPA": epact, epacts, eparch, eparchies, eparchs, eparchy, epaulet, epaulets, epaulette, epauletted, epaulettes, epazote, epazotes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "EPA": metepa, tepa, thiotepa. (additional references) | |
Words containing "EPA": addlepated, antepast, antepasts, antiseparatist, antiseparatists, bepaint, bepainted, bepainting, bepaints, cheeseparing, cheeseparings, conepate, conepates, conepatl, conepatls, creepage, creepages, depaint, depainted, depainting, depaints, depart, departed, departee, departees, departing, department, departmental, departmentalization, departmentalizations, departmentalize, departmentalized, departmentalizes, departmentalizing, departmentally, departments, departs, departure, departures, depauperate, diazepam, diazepams, discrepancies, discrepancy, discrepant, discrepantly, disrepair, disrepairs, extrahepatic, firepan, firepans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ape, pea. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-p" | |
-1 letter: ae, pa, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-p" | |
+1 letter: aped, aper, apes, apex, apse, cape, epha, gape, heap, jape, leap, nape, neap, pace, page, pale, pane, pare, pase, pate, pave, peag, peak, peal, pean, pear, peas, peat, plea, rape, reap, spae, tape, tepa. | |
+2 letters: adept, agape, aleph, ample, apace, apeak, apeek, apers, apery, apnea, appel, apple, apres, apses, apter, arpen, aspen, asper, becap, caped, caper, capes, chape, cheap, crape, drape, epact, ephah, ephas, etape, expat, gaped, gaper, gapes, grape, heaps, japed, japer, japes, lapel, lapse, leaps, leapt, lepta, maple, napes, nappe, neaps, opera, paced, pacer, paces, padle, padre, paean, paeon, paged, pager, pages, paise, palea, paled, paler, pales, palet, paned, panel, panes, panne, paper, parae, pared, pareo, parer, pares, pareu, parge, parle, parse, parve, paseo, pases, passe, paste, pated, paten, pater, pates, pause, paved, paver, paves, pawed, pawer, paxes, payed, payee, payer, peace, peach, peage, peags, peaks, peaky, peals, peans, pearl, pears, peart, pease, peats, peaty, peavy, pecan, pedal, pekan, penal, penna, pepla, perea, petal, phage, phase, pieta, pilea, place, plage, plane, plate, plead, pleas, pleat, plena, prase, prate, presa, psoae, pupae, raped, raper, rapes, raphe, reaps, recap, remap, repay, salep, scape, sepal, sepia, septa, shape, sneap, space, spade, spaed, spaes, spake, spale, spare, spate, speak, spean, spear, taped, taper, tapes, taupe, tepal, tepas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 50 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .--. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01010000 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E P A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0050 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)395035 |
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