- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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.
Surrounded by a case, housing, fence, or wall(s) that prevents persons from accidentally contacting energized electrical conductors or circuit parts.
Industry:Fire safety
Suppression of the ignition and electrical system noises that normally interfere with radio transmission and reception.
Industry:Fire safety
Surfaces that are classed as main thoroughfares, paved roadways, runways, taxiways, parking aprons, and secondary routes of vehicle travel including mediums that are normally of paved, asphalted, or concrete construction.
Industry:Fire safety
Supplementary firing with the addition of air at the duct burners to support and stabilize combustion or to reduce emissions.
Industry:Fire safety
Sudden application of a force, which causes kinetic energy and momentum to be converted into other forms of energy.
Industry:Fire safety
Structures, usually enclosed by walls and a roof, constructed to provide support or shelter for an intended occupancy.
Industry:Fire safety
Structures, systems, or components that are required to remain functional to ensure the integrity of the reactor coolant pressure boundary, the capability to shut down the reactor and maintain it in a safe shutdown condition, or the capability to prevent or mitigate the consequences of accidents that could result in potential off-site exposures comparable to regulatory guideline exposures.
Industry:Fire safety
Structures, other than buildings, for which loads are specified in ASCE/SEI 7.
Industry:Fire safety
Structures, systems, or components provided to prevent or mitigate the release of radioactive materials.
Industry:Fire safety
