mitigation
11mitigation — noun (U) 1 in mitigation law if you say something in mitigation, you try to make someone s crime or mistake seem less serious or show that they were not completely responsible: The captain added, in mitigation, that the engines may have been… …
12MITIGATION — s. f. Adoucissement. La règle de cet ordre avait besoin de mitigation. Il faudrait apporter à cette loi quelque mitigation. La mitigation des peines …
13mitigation — (mi ti ga sion ; en vers, de cinq syllabes) s. f. Action de mitiger. La mitigation de la douleur. Fig. Action d atténuer. • Les mitigations de Mélanchthon les avaient menés [les luthériens] peu à peu des excès de Luther...., BOSSUET Diss.… …
14MITIGATION — n. f. T. didactique Adoucissement. La mitigation des peines de l’enfer …
15mitigation — mit·i·ga·tion .mit ə gā shən n 1) the act of mitigating or state of being mitigated <the cure, prevention, or mitigation of disease (Encyc. Americana)> 2) something that mitigates <a large number of drugs and mitigations...at the clinic… …
16mitigation — noun Mitigation is used after these nouns: ↑risk …
17mitigation — mit|i|ga|tion [ ,mıtı geıʃn ] noun uncount 1. ) FORMAL a reduction in the harmful effects of something: a project involving pollution mitigation 2. ) LEGAL things that are said in a court of law to explain why someone committed a crime so that it …
18mitigation — UK [ˌmɪtɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun [uncountable] 1) formal a reduction in the harmful effects of something a project involving pollution mitigation 2) legal things that are said in a court of law to explain why someone committed a crime so that it… …
19mitigation — mitigate ► VERB 1) make less severe, serious, or painful. 2) (mitigating) (of a fact or circumstance) lessening the gravity or culpability of an action. DERIVATIVES mitigation noun. USAGE The words mitigate and militate are often confused …
20Mitigation of global warming — involves taking actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to enhance sinks aimed at reducing the extent of global warming. [ [http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/glossary/ar4 wg3.pdf IPCC Glossary Working Group III, p. 818] ] This is in distinction to… …
