| Used when there are two sets of bathroom fixtures on opposite sides of a wall with their drain connections opposite each other; the fixtures may drain into the same waste and also have dual vents; fixtures which are directly across from each other may have common wastes and dual vents.
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| A cable fortransmission of telephone, television, and computer signals.
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| A circuit which is part of a central station system; such circuits include telephone, telegraph, district messenger, inter-communications, public address systems, fire and burglar alarms, watchmen and sprinkler supervisory circuits with their associated operating and signaling power supply equipment.
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| Any of various types of manholes used in the installation of communication conduits or cables.
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| An act or instance of transmitting information.
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| A room in a hotel or lodging house used or intended to be used by the occupants of two or more guest rooms for cooking or preparing food.
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| An intermediate size of Shopping Center.
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| Part of rotor in electric motor which conveys electric current to rotor windings.
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| Fill acquired from excavation that has been compacted.
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| Freshly poured concrete that has been packed tighter by vibration, tamping, or a combination of both to remove voids.
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| Cubic measurement of soil or rock after it has been placed and compacted in a fill.
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| A hard tile surfacing unit made from a mixture of chemicals; the finished surface can be the mixture of chemicals or can be marble chips to create a terrazzo finish; the unit is made hard by the set of the chemicals and the product is not fired as in the manufacture of ceramic tile.
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| The process whereby the volume of freshly placed material is rced or flattened by vibration or tamping, or some combination of these; rction in bulk of fill by rolling, tamping or soaking; insufficient compaction of asphalt pavement courses may result in channeling on the pavement surface.
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| 1. A mechanical device that compresses objects into smaller units. 2. A machine in an industrial setting that compacts or compresses materials. 3. A machine in a kitchen that compresses or compacts materials by using hydraulic weight, force or vibration.
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| A pipe connection device that is machined and drilled to match another flange on a pipe or fitting.
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| The legal doctrine that wrongdoers should pay damages proportional to their fault.
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| A kiln in which the total charge of lumber is dried as a single unit; it is designed so that, at any given time, the temperature and relative humidity are essentially uniform throughout the kiln; the temperature is increased as drying progresses, and the relative humidity is adjusted to the needs of the lumber.
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| See Shower Compartment.
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| 1. A drafting tool; an adjustable device for drawing circles; similar to a dividers but with a point on one leg and a pen or pencil on the other; often called compasses or a pair of compasses. 2. A Magnetic Compass.
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| Ability to mix with or adhere properly to other components or substances.
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| Errors that are small in magnitude and in which the pluses and minuses (overs and unders) tend to offset each other; compare with Cumulative Errors.
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| An amount calculated to compensate a party for economic loss caused by the wrongful act of another.
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| The process of two or more contractors submitting proposals for the same work at the same time.
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| A color that combined with its complement yields gray; complementary pairs include red-green, yellow-violet, and blue-orange.
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| In welding, fusion which has occurred over the entire base- metal surfaces exposed for welding.
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| A bond guaranteeing to the lender that the project will be completed free of liens.
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| The date stipulated in the construction contract for substantial completion.
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| When the work of the construction contract is complete.
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| A method of computing depreciation of property by its individual parts rather than as a whole.
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| 1. A constituent part or ingredient. 2. One of two or more forces which, acting together, have the same effect as a single force, called the resultant.
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