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Term Definition
Service Equipment. 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.  
Service Head. The external fitting used at the juncture of the electrical service to a building and the mast from the breaker panel.  
Service Lateral. 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.  
Service Load. The live and dead structural loads, without load factors.  
Service Manifold. Chamber equipped with gauges and manual valves, used by service technicians to service refrigerating systems.  
Service Panel. The main electric panel which houses the main switches and distributes electricity to the branch panels and circuits.  
Service Pipe. The water pipe coming into the building from the street main.  
Service Raceway. The rigid conduit, electrical metallic tubing, or other raceway, that encloses the electrical service entrance conductors.  
Service Sink. 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.  
Service Station. An establishment that services motor vehicles and sells gasoline and oil.  
Service Valve. A type of valve which provides an opening in a liquid piping system to service and monitor the system.  
Service Window. An opening in a wall or partition through which business is transacted.  
Service Wye. A pipe fitting which joins three pipes at a 45 degree angle; a drainage fitting in a plumbing system.  
Service. The conductors and equipment for delivering energy from the electricity supply system to the wiring system of the premises served.  
Serviceable Hermetic. Hermetic unit housing containing motor and compressor assembled by use of bolts or cap screws.  
Servo. 1. A servomotor. 2. A servomechanism.  
Servomechanism. A low power device, electrical, hydraulic, or pneumatic, that controls a more powerful mechanism.  
Servomotor. The motive element in a servo mechanism.  
Set Back. 1. The distance a building is located from the front property line. 2. See Offset.  
Set In. The distance a brick is set back from the brick directly below it.  
Set Match. 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.  
Set Off. see Offset.  
Set Screw. 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.  
Set. 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.  
Setoff. An offset against a claim.  
Sett. A rectangular paving block of stone or wood.  
Setting Bed. 1. The layer of mortar on which the tile is set. 2. The final coat of mortar on a wall or ceiling.  
Setting of a Circuit Breaker. The value of the current at which the circuit breaker is set to trip.  
Setting Time. The time required for a freshly mixed cement paste, mortar, concrete, or plaster to achieve initial or final set.  
Setting Type Joint Compound. 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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