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Single treatment facility
Fire safety; Prevention & protection
A diagnostic or treatment complex under a single management comprising a number of use points, but confined to a single contiguous group of use points (i.e., does not involve widely separated ...
Flow chart
Fire safety; Prevention & protection
A diagram consisting of a set of symbols and connecting lines that shows a step-by-step progression through a procedure or system.
Hydraulic diameter
Fire safety; Prevention & protection
A diameter for noncircular cross sections that is determined by 4(A/p), where Ais the cross-sectional area normal to the longitudinal axis of the space and pis the perimeter of the cross section.
Interaxle differential
Fire safety; Prevention & protection
A differential in the line of drive between any two axles.
Programmable controller
Fire safety; Prevention & protection
A digital electronic system designed for use in an industrial environment that uses a programmable memory for the internal storage of user-oriented instructions for implementing specific functions to ...
Closed-top diking
Fire safety; Prevention & protection
A dike with a cover intended to minimise the entrance of precipitation into the diked area.
Reference plane
Fire safety; Prevention & protection
A dimensionally defined plane parallel to the basic plane that is measured from the top of the applicable headform or the basic plane.