sequestration / ˌsi kwɛsˈtreɪ ʃən, sɪ kwɛs- /

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sequestration 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. removal or separation; banishment or exile.
  2. a withdrawal into seclusion; retirement.
  3. segregation from others; isolation: sequestration of jurors during a trial.
  4. Law. the sequestering of property.confiscation or seizure.
  5. Chemistry. the combining of metallic ions with a suitable reagent into a stable, soluble complex in order to prevent the ions from combining with a substance with which they would otherwise have formed an insoluble precipitate, from causing interference in a particular reaction, or from acting as undesirable catalysts.
  6. the trapping of a chemical in the atmosphere or environment and its isolation in a natural or artificial storage area: Carbon sequestration can reduce global warming.
  7. the process of implementing an automatic cut in government spending across most departments, agencies, etc.: efforts to avoid or delay sequestration.an instance of this: An $80 billion sequestration would lead to massive layoffs.

sequestration 近义词

n. 名词 noun

seclusion

更多sequestration例句

  1. The healthier the soil, the greater its capacity for carbon sequestration, and the greater the farm’s biodiversity, the healthier soil.
  2. Sustainable, native lawns are better for soil health and carbon sequestration without the need for trees because they can trap large amounts of carbon just like trees do.
  3. Planting more trees for carbon sequestration or crops for fuels will compete with growing food for an expanding global population.
  4. If healthy forests are the safe, reliable way to sequester carbon, industrial carbon capture and sequestration is the opposite.
  5. To replace that income, the company is converting the 300,000 acres of forest it owns in the Tongass to carbon sequestration.
  6. Then money for the DOD program was sidelined by the sequestration budget cuts mandated by Congress, Retsky was told.
  7. He has also managed to trim costs in an era of sequestration.
  8. He expects more cutbacks to Head Start when budget sequestration kicks in again in 2015.
  9. In a nutshell: She screwed struggling North Carolinians by backing sequestration and the shutdown.
  10. He is 100 percent opposed to derailing the American Dream by allowing sequestration to be tinkered with.
  11. The fugitives had sufficient inducements to return to their hearths, without the fear of sequestration.
  12. So the Ships were seized; held in sequestration, "till many of the cargoes (being perishable goods, some even fish) rotted."
  13. Precisely in the same circumstances of idle and absurd sequestration stands the term polemic.
  14. A more retired spot, a completer sequestration from the world of mart and highway, it would have been hard to find.
  15. Bewildered, I signed and paid the Sequestration Commissioner out o' my buckskin pouch in hard coin.