- 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 series of two or more aerial shells fused to fire in sequence from a single ignition.
Industry:Fire safety
A series of stitches joining two or more separate plies of material(s) of planar structure, such as textiles.
Industry:Fire safety
A series of numbers from 3 through 7 that are mathematical factors used in a formula to determine total water supply requirements.
Industry:Fire safety
A series of numbers from 0. 5 through 1. 5 that are mathematical factors used in a formula to determine the total water supply requirements.
Industry:Fire safety
A sequence or synopsis of actual or imagined events used in the field or classroom to provide information necessary to meet student competencies; can be based upon threat assessment.
Industry:Fire safety
A separation process in which air bubbles emerging from a supersaturated solution become attached to suspended solids in the liquid undergoing treatment and float them up to the surface.
Industry:Fire safety
A separation of the wood along the fiber direction that usually extends across the rings of annual growth and commonly results from stresses set up in the wood during seasoning.
Industry:Fire safety
A separately ventilated, fully enclosed room in which only compressed gases and associated equipment and supplies are stored or used.
Industry:Fire safety
A separate, main fuel tank for supplying fuel to the engine or a day tank.
Industry:Fire safety
A separate, detached building or an attached building that is used for warehousing-type operations for liquids and whose exterior wall comprises at least 25 percent of the building perimeter.
Industry:Fire safety
