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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.

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