| A large sports stadium or building designed like the Roman Coliseum for public entertainments.
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| An artistic composition in which various materials such as photographs, pieces of fabric, metals, and wood are arranged and glued to a backing.
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| To cave or fall in or give way; failure of a structure.
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| A horizontal beam near the top of a trussed rafter system attached to opposing rafters to resist their spreading; also called a Collar Tie or a Collar Beam.
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| The vertical mortar joint between wythes of masonry.
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| See Collar Beam.
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| A compression ring around a small circular opening.
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| Property pledged or in the possession of a creditor to guarantee payment of an obligation by a debtor.
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| The ratio of heat energy extracted from a collector to the quantity of solar energy striking the cover expressed in percent.
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| Elements that serve to transmit the inertial forces with the diaphragms to members of the lateral-force- resisting systems.
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| Connecting roads between arterial streets, not necessarily continuous, to discourage through traffic; intersections often controlled by traffic lights; parking permitted under various conditions; pedestrian crossing controlled.
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| 1. In structural analysis, a force transfer element that collects loads from a diaphragm (horizontal element) and transfers them to the shear walls (vertical element). 2. Any of a wide variety of devices (flatplate, concentrating, etc.) used to collect solar energy and convert it to heat; a Solar Collector.
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| A metal band, flange, or ferrule.
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| A mixture containing ultramicroscopic particles of one substance scattered evenly throughout another; also known as a dispersion.
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| A substance divided into fine particles which remains in permanent suspension in a liquid.
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| A secret combination or conspiracy between two or more persons having a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; the illegal practice of contractors agreeing to submit higher bids so that a chosen contractors bid will be low.
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| An architectural style of a board or molding used against the bottom of walls to cover the joint with the floor and to protect the walls from dents and scuffs.
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| A style of molding from eighteenth century English Georgian, reproduced and incorporated into buildings in America.
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| A set of columns occurring at regular intervals.
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| In painting, the individual, either the journeyman or contractor, who is an expert in tinting and matching colors.
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| Pigments such as blue, red, etc. which absorb a portion of the light which falls upon them and reflect or return to the eye certain groups of light bands which enable us to recognize various colors.
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| When a paint product exposed to the elements shows no signs of changing color it is said to have good color retention.
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| See Complementary Color.
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| See Primary Color.
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| The visual appearance of objects and light sources in terms of hue, lightness, and saturation for objects and hue, brightness, and saturation for light sources; a hue as contrasted with black, white, and gray.
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| Plaster finish coats containing integrally mixed color pigments or colored aggregates.
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| Commercially prepared grout consisting of carefully graded aggregate, portland cement, water dispersing agents, plasticizers, and color fast pigments.
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| Non fading.
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| See Chromometer.
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| The relative strength or ability of pigments to color base material which is white or light in color.
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