- 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.
A pair of swinging doors, each leaf of which swings in the opposite direction of the other.
Industry:Fire safety
A pair of heavy metal posts fastened on a deck to which mooring lines are secured.
Industry:Fire safety
A packaged sprinkler system including all components connected to the water supply and designed to be installed according to pretested limitations.
Industry:Fire safety
A package designed and produced by a commercial manufacturer that contains all the components and parts necessary to reload and reuse a reloadable model or high power rocket motor casing.
Industry:Fire safety
A numerical value assigned to an extinguisher based on its fire-extinguishing capability.
Industry:Fire safety
A nozzle with a rated discharge of less than 1325 L/min (350 gpm).
Industry:Fire safety
A nozzle with a rated discharge of 1325 L/min (350 gpm) or greater.
Industry:Fire safety
A nozzle intended to open automatically by operation of a heat responsive element that maintains the discharge orifice closed by means such as the exertion of force on a cap (button or disc), that when discharging water under pressure, will distribute the water in a specific, directional pattern.
Industry:Fire safety
A nozzle feature that allows the orifice to be opened so that small debris that could otherwise be trapped in the nozzle, causing pattern disruptions and discharge variation, can pass through.
Industry:Fire safety
