Glossary I

The Environmental Glossary. Letter I +++ Popular Articles: 'Information', 'Impact', 'Indicator'

An Industrial Energy Customer is Industrial Energy Customers include

Deutsch: Industrieanlagen / Español: Equipamiento industrial / Português: Equipamento industrial / Français: Équipement industriel / Italiano: Attrezzatura industriale

Industrial equipment in the environmental context refers to the machinery, tools, and devices used in various industries that have a significant impact on the environment. This equipment can range from large-scale machinery used in manufacturing and construction to smaller tools and devices utilized in processes such as chemical production, waste management, and resource extraction. The environmental implications of industrial equipment are vast, encompassing resource consumption, energy use, emissions, and waste production, all of which can contribute to pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss.

An Industrial sector is Construction, manufacturing, agricultural and mining establishments.

Industrial-medical revolution is the use of new sources of energy from fossil fuels and later from nuclear fuels, and use of new technologies, to grow food and manufacture products.

The industrialized countries are nations whose economies are based on industrial production and the conversion of raw materials into products and services, mainly with the use of machinery and artificial energy (fossil fuels and nuclear fission); generally located in the northern and western hemispheres (e.g., U.S., Japan, the countries of Europe).

An infauna is animals that live within the sediments, often in holes they have dug.

An Infiltration is when water permeates or soaks into the ground, it goes through open spaces and pores in the ground.

Deutsch: Entzündung / Español: Inflamación / Português: Inflamação / Français: Inflammation / Italiano: Infiammazione /

An Inflammation is Swelling caused by the accumulation of lymph and blood Cells at the site of infection or injury.

An inflow zone is area where a river enters a reservoir.

Deutsch: Information / Español: Información / Português: Informação / Français: Information / Italiano: Informazione
Information, in its most restricted technical sense, is a sequence of symbols that can be interpreted as a message. Information can be recorded as signs, or transmitted as signals. Information is any kind of event that affects the state of a dynamic system that can interpret the information.