mitigation

English

Etymology

From Middle French mitigation, from Latin mitigatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

mitigation (countable and uncountable, plural mitigations)

1. A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
   • 2004, Bhattacharya, K., Azizi, P. M., Shobair, S, S,, Mohsini, M. Y., Drought impacts and potential for their mitigation in southern and western Afghanistan, IWMI (→ISBN)

     One possible drought mitigation strategy for Afghanistan is to divert excess water from water-rich river basins to water-scarce river basins in cases where this is technologically, economically and environmentally feasible.

Related terms

• mitigate
• mitigating
• mitigant

Translations

reduction of something harmful

• Arabic: تخفيف
• Catalan: mitigació f
• Dutch: opluchting (nl) f, verlichting (nl)
• Finnish: lieventäminen (fi), lievennys, hillitseminen
• French: soulagement (fr) m
• German: Erleichterung (de), Abmilderung f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: mitigação f
• Russian: смягчение (ru) n (smjaxčenije), уменьшение (ru) n (umenʹšenije), облегчение (ru) n (oblexčenije)
• Serbo-Croatian: ublažavanje, taženje, utaživanje, olakšavanje, olakšanje (sh), mitigacija
• Spanish: mitigación f
• Swedish: förmildrande omständighet
• Urdu: تخفیف
• Vietnamese: sự làm nhẹ (vi), sự làm dịu (vi)