| A law enacted by a city or a county.
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| Rock or earth containing workable quantities of a mineral or minerals of commercial value.
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| A prepared organic material, ready to use with no further addition of liquid or powder, used for bonding tile to back-up material by the thinset method; cures or sets by evaporation.
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| 1. Any chemical compound containing carbon. 2. Being or composed of hydrocarbons or their derivatives or matter of plant or animal origin. 3. Pertaining to or derived from living organisms.
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| Film former containing resin plasticizer and solvent; colloidal dispersion of a resin in plasticizer containing more than 5 percent volatile content.
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| A bay window projecting from a wall and supported on corbels or brackets.
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| A type of particle panel product composed of strand-type flakes which are purposefully aligned in directions which make a panel stronger, stiffer, and with improved dimensional properties in the alignment directions than a panel with random flake orientation; also called Strandboard.
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| 1. An opening through which something may pass. 2. Attachment to the nozzle on the hose of a plastering machine, of various shapes and sizes, which may be changed to help establish the pattern of the plaster as it is projected onto the surface being plastered. 3. The opening through which fuel is ejected into the burner unit of a furnace or boiler.
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| In the law of mechanics liens, a contractor who contracts directly with an owner of real property.
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| A rubber seal used around stems of some valves to prevent water from leaking by it.
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| A gilded bronze or gold-colored alloy of copper, zinc, and tin used to decorate furniture and make ornaments.
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| A thing used or serving to adorn; a decoration added to embellish.
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| In masonry, a design formed by the laying of stone, brick, tile or other masonry units so as to produce a decorative effect.
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| A detail that is added to a building constructed of metal, with the purpose of embellishment or decorating the structure.
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| serving as an ornament; decorative.
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| Elaborately adorned; highly decorated.
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| Of or involving right angles.
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| Projection of a single view of an object on a drawing surface that is perpendicular to both the view and the lines of projection; floor plans, elevations, and sections of buildings are orthographic projections.
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| Having unique and independent properties in three mutually orthogonal (perpendicular) planes of symmetry; a special case of anisotropy.
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| A type of valve, with external exposed threads supported by a yoke, indicating the open or closed position of the valve.
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| Oriented Strand Board.
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| A repeated back and forth movement, from one extreme to another, periodically from a maximum to a minimum.
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| A device for recording oscillations.
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| A cathode ray tube that shows the changing voltage of an electrical signal as a curved line on a screen.
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| Occupational Safety & Health Administration.
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| The passage of a solvent through a semi-permeable membrane into a more concentrated solution.
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| A sand used as a standard in testing hydraulic cements by means of mortar test specimens; produced by processing silica rock particles obtained by hydraulic mining of the orthoquartzite situated in open pit deposits near Ottawa, Illinois; naturally rounded grains of nearly pure quartz.
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| The state wherein a structure in motion is not at the same frequency as the ground motion; or where equipment in a building is at a different frequency from the structure.
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| The variation from true square.
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| Plastic pipe placed in service or stored so that it is not protected from the elements of normal weather conditions, the suns rays, rain, air, and wind.
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