Francis J. Hopcroft & Shivani Kumar 
Environmental Engineering Dictionary of Technical Terms and Phrases 
English to Tamil and Tamil to English

This reference manual provides a list of approximately 300 technical terms and phrases common to environmental and civil engineering which non-English speakers often find difficult to understand in English. The manual provides the terms and phrases in alphabetical order, followed by a concise English definition, then a translation of the term in Tamil and, finally, an interpretation or translation of the term or phrase in Tamil. Following the Tamil translations section, the columns are reversed and reordered alphabetically in Tamil with the English term and translation following the Tamil term or phrase.