| 1.A deflection that is intentionally built into a structural element or form, usually a beam, to improve appearance or to nullify and offset the deflection of the beam under the effects of loads, shrinkage, and creep. 2. A slight rise at the center of a flat arch.
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| A thin layer of tissue in a tree between the bark and wood that repeatedly subdivides to form new wood and bark cells.
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| Slender grooved lead rod used in stained glass windows.
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| A device for the transmission or recording of visual images.
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| A free-standing bell tower.
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| The grounds and buildings of a university, college, or school.
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| 222 Queen Street, 14th Floor, Ottawa, Canada K1A 1G6, (613) 941-8648.
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| 178 Rexdale Boulevard, Rexdale, Toronto, Canada, M9W 1R3, (416) 747-4000.
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| An international unit of luminous intensity; also called a Candle.
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| (Pl. candelabra) A branched candle stick or lamp with several lights.
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| Wax obtained from small shrub grown in Texas and Mexico; softer than Carnuba wax.
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| See Candela.
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| The unit of luminous intensity of a light source, expressed in Candelas.
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| An L-shaped rod, mounted on a swinging or sliding door or gate, that drops into a pipe sleeve below the floor surface to secure the door or gate.
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| The process of operating an income property by borrowing parts, fixtures, and equipment from vacant spaces.
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| Tubular.
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| An overhanging shelter; a marquee.
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| 1. A strip of material, usually treated wood or fiber, with a sloping face used to ease the transition from a horizontal to a vertical surface at the edge of a flat roof; prevents the roofing material from abruptly stopping at the parapet wall and also helps prevent leakage at that juncture. 2. A triangular shaped strip of wood used under shingles at gable ends or under the edges of roofing on flat decks.
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| A retaining wall in which the wall and footing resists earth pressure by cantilever effect.
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| A structural shape, beam, truss, or slab, that extends beyond its last point of support.
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| A beam that is supported at one end only.
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| Wood strip applied to the base of a wall to protect wall surface and finish the intersection of wall and baseboard.
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| A solid flat slab usually 2-1/4 inches thick used as capping units for parapet and garden walls; also used as a Paving Unit.
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| See Counterflashing.
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| See Capitalization Rate.
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| The top sheet of roofing in a built up roof, usually made of organic or inorganic fibers, saturated and coated on both sides with a bituminous compound and factory-coated with mineral granules, mica, talc, iliminite, asbestos, or other inorganic fibers, or similar material.
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| A steel fitting, with female threads, which seals the end of a pipe.
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| A structural member usually fastened to, and placed on the top of a slender timber, concrete, steel pile; used to transmit loads into the pile or group of piles and to interconnect them.
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| A fitting which joins the end of a wooden post to a joist or girder connected to the post.
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| A fitting that is fastened by welding to seal the end of a pipe.
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