| The necessary equipment, usually consisting of circuit breaker or switch and fuses, and their accessories, intended to constitute the main control and means of cutoff for the electrical supply to a building or structure.
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| The external fitting used at the juncture of the electrical service to a building and the mast from the breaker panel.
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| The underground electrical service conductors between the street main, including any risers at a pole or other structure or from transformers, and the first point of connection to the service entrance conductors in a terminal box inside or outside the building wall; where there is no terminal box, the point of connection shall be considered to be the point of entrance of the service conductors into the building.
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| The live and dead structural loads, without load factors.
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| Chamber equipped with gauges and manual valves, used by service technicians to service refrigerating systems.
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| The main electric panel which houses the main switches and distributes electricity to the branch panels and circuits.
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| The water pipe coming into the building from the street main.
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| The rigid conduit, electrical metallic tubing, or other raceway, that encloses the electrical service entrance conductors.
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| A sink with a deep basin to accommodate a scrub pail; used for the filling and emptying of scrub pails, the rinsing of mops, and the disposal of cleaning water; also called a Slop Sink.
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| An establishment that services motor vehicles and sells gasoline and oil.
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| A type of valve which provides an opening in a liquid piping system to service and monitor the system.
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| An opening in a wall or partition through which business is transacted.
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| A pipe fitting which joins three pipes at a 45 degree angle; a drainage fitting in a plumbing system.
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| The conductors and equipment for delivering energy from the electricity supply system to the wiring system of the premises served.
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| Hermetic unit housing containing motor and compressor assembled by use of bolts or cap screws.
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| 1. A servomotor. 2. A servomechanism.
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| A low power device, electrical, hydraulic, or pneumatic, that controls a more powerful mechanism.
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| The motive element in a servo mechanism.
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| 1. The distance a building is located from the front property line. 2. See Offset.
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| The distance a brick is set back from the brick directly below it.
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| In a Set Match carpet pattern, the figure matches straight across on each side of the narrow carpet width; in a Drop Match, the figure matches midway of the design; in a Quarter Drop Match, the figure matches one-quarter of the length of the repeat on the opposite side.
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| see Offset.
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| 1. A headless screw used to secure two separate parts in a relative position to one another, preventing the independent motion of either part. 2. A screw to adjust the tension of a spring.
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| 1.To harden by chemical hydration. 2. A change from a plastic to a hard state. 3. The change in mortar or plaster from a plastic, workable state to a solid, rigid state. 4. The condition reached by a cement paste, mortar, or concrete when it has lost plasticity to an arbitrary degree, usually measured in terms of resistance to penetration or deformation; initial set refers to first stiffening; final set refers to attainment of significant rigidity. 5. A chisel used for cutting brick.
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| An offset against a claim.
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| A rectangular paving block of stone or wood.
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| 1. The layer of mortar on which the tile is set. 2. The final coat of mortar on a wall or ceiling.
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| The value of the current at which the circuit breaker is set to trip.
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| The time required for a freshly mixed cement paste, mortar, concrete, or plaster to achieve initial or final set.
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| A gypsumboard joint compound that hardens by chemical reaction prior to drying; used for patching and completing joint finishing in a shorter period of time.
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