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National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
Number of terms: 98780
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A building characteristic and other conditions that are under the control of the design team.
Industry:Fire safety
A bucket elevator that has less than 20 percent of the above grade leg height inside any enclosed structure.
Industry:Fire safety
A branch circuit that supplies energy to one or more outlets to which appliances are to be connected and that has no permanently connected luminaires that are not a part of an appliance.
Industry:Fire safety
A branch circuit that supplies only one utilization equipment.
Industry:Fire safety
A branch circuit that supplies two or more receptacles or outlets for lighting and appliances.
Industry:Fire safety
A branch within the logistics section responsible for service activities at an incident or planned event, including the communications unit, medical unit, and food unit.
Industry:Fire safety
A branch circuit that consists of two or more ungrounded conductors that have a voltage between them, and a grounded conductor that has equal voltage between it and each ungrounded conductor of the circuit and that is connected to the neutral or grounded conductor of the system.
Industry:Fire safety
A braking system in addition to the service brakes, such as an engine retarder, transmission retarder, driveline retarder, or exhaust retarders.
Industry:Fire safety
A box containing pendant-or flush-mounted receptacles attached to a multiconductor cable via strain relief or a multipole connector.
Industry:Fire safety
A box or enclosure from which an animal or animals cannot normally escape without human intervention.
Industry:Fire safety