- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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 total rate of water discharge density, less water wastage due to factors such as wind effects and inaccuracies in nozzle angles of spray.
Industry:Fire safety
The story that is either (1) The lowest story from which not less than 50 percent of the required number of exits and not less than 50 percent of the required egress capacity from such a story discharge directly outside at the finished ground level; or (2) where no story meets the conditions of (1), the story that is provided with one or more exits that discharge directly to the outside to the finished ground level via the smallest elevation change.
Industry:Fire safety
The technique of detecting and arresting combustion in a confined space while the combustion is still in its incipient stage, thus preventing the development of pressures that could result in an explosion.
Industry:Fire safety
The stage of a room fire during which average air temperature in the upper half of the room exceeds 600°C.
Industry:Fire safety
The time required to pump a given system from atmospheric pressure to a pressure at which a diffusion pump or other high vacuum pump can operate.
Industry:Fire safety
The total quantity of combustible contents of a building, space, or fire area, including interior finish and trim, expressed in heat units or the equivalent weight in wood.
Industry:Fire safety
The water pressure seal at the mating surfaces of nonthreaded couplings or adapters.
Industry:Fire safety
The unit rate of foam-water solution application to an area, expressed in L/min•m2 (gpm/ft2).
Industry:Fire safety
The system of defining the predominant operating characteristic of a portion of a building or plant for purposes of applying relevant sections of this code.
Industry:Fire safety
The strategy and tactics used to protect or shelter people and/or animals from an advancing wildland fire in a safe area, as an alternative to evacuation.
Industry:Fire safety
