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National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
Number of terms: 98780
Number of blossaries: 0
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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.
Operation of a system or its components through human action.
Industry:Fire safety
Operation for alternate intervals of (1) load and no load; (2) load and rest; and (3) load, no load, and rest.
Industry:Fire safety
Operation at a substantially constant load for an indefinitely long time.
Industry:Fire safety
Operation at a substantially constant load for an indefinitely long time.
Industry:Fire safety
Operation at a substantially constant load for a short and definitely specified time.
Industry:Fire safety
Operating elements, such as relays, contactors, circuit breakers, switches, solenoids, brakes, and similar types of components, intended to govern or perform a given function in the operation, including measuring, sensing, monitoring, protecting, and regulating of machinery.
Industry:Fire safety
On-floor storage in which tires are formed into a pyramid to provide pile stability.
Industry:Fire safety
Openings created by rescuers that provide a pathway to trapped and/or injured victims.
Industry:Fire safety
Operated by the use of discrete signals to represent data in the form of numbers or other characters.
Industry:Fire safety
One-and two-way communications service provided over a video network, generally through coaxial cable.
Industry:Fire safety