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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A. defined narrowly, a science that is concerned with the naturre and arrangement of horizons in soil profiles ; the physical constitution and chemical composition of soils ; the occurence of soils in relation to one another and to other elements of the environment such as climate, natural vegetation, topography and rocks ; and the modes of origin of soils ; B. defined more broadly pedology is the science that treats soils, their nature, properties, formation, distribution, functioning, and response to use ; management and manipulation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The study of the properties, occurrence, and management of soil as a natural resource. Generally it includes the chemistry, microbiology, physics, morphology, and mineralogy of soils, as well as their genesis andclassification. Syn:pedology. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SOIL SCIENCE |
| Specialty definitions using "SOIL SCIENCE": SOIL CONSERVATIONIST, SSSA. (references) |
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| 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 |
soil science | 36 |
journal of soil science | 7 |
soil science job | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SOIL SCIENCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | pedologi (agrology, edaphology, pedology), jordbundsvidenskab (agrology, edaphology, pedology), jordbundslaere (agrology, edaphology, pedology), agrologi (agrology, edaphology, pedology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pedologie (agrology, edaphology, pedology), bodemkunde (agrology, edaphology, pedology), agrologie (agrology, edaphology, pedology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | science du sol, pédologie, agrologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Pedologie (agrology, edaphology, pedology), Bodenkunde (agrology, edaphology, pedology), Agrologie (agrology, edaphology, pedology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εδαφολογία (agrology, edaphology, pedology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | talajtan (pedology, soil research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | scienza del terreno (agrology, edaphology, pedology), scienza del suolo (agrology, edaphology, pedology), pedologia (agrology, edaphology, pedology), agrologia (agrology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oilsay iencescay pedologia;ciência do solo;agrologia (agrology, edaphology, pedology). (various references) pedología (pedology), edafología (edaphology, pedology), ciencia del suelo (agrology, edaphology, pedology), agrología (agrology, edaphology, pedology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-i-l-n-o-s-s" | |
-2 letters: colicines, isoclines, silicones. | |
-3 letters: cicelies, cineoles, colicine, colicins, elisions, encloses, incloses, isocline, isolines, licences, licenses, lionises, oiliness, sciences, scoleces, scolices, senecios, silences, silicone, silicons, solecise. | |
-4 letters: cession, cilices, cineole, cineols, ciscoes, clinics, colicin, concise, cosines, elision, enclose, enisles, ensiles, eosines, eosinic, iceless, icicles, iciness, incises, inclose, insoles, ionises, isoline, lesions, licence, license, lioness. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-i-i-l-n-o-s-s" | |
+5 letters: bioluminescences, inconclusiveness, misrecollections. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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