- 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.
The discharge from any fixture, appliance, area, or appurtenance that does not contain body waste.
Industry:Fire safety
The discharge from any fixture, appliance, or appurtenance containing fecal matter or urine.
Industry:Fire safety
The dimensions of a mesh that are specified in ASTM E 11, Standard Specification for Wire Cloth and Sieves for Testing Purposes.
Industry:Fire safety
The channel of a river, creek, or other watercourse, and the adjacent land area, that must be reserved in order to pass the base flood discharge without cumulatively raising the water surface elevation more than a designated height.
Industry:Fire safety
The direct current (dc) voltage of any photovoltaic source or photovoltaic output circuit. For multiwire installations, the photovoltaic system voltage is the highest voltage between any two dc conductors.
Industry:Fire safety
The dimensions determined with the vehicle fully loaded and equipped, unless otherwise specified.
Industry:Fire safety
The difference between the height of the ceiling and the minimum height of the smoke layer boundary above the finished floor level that meets design objectives.
Industry:Fire safety
The difference between a predicted value and the actual value where a fault condition is expected.
Industry:Fire safety
