| A compartment where water is showered on a person.
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| A bath in which water is showered on the person.
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| Cracking of a structure or member due to failure in tension caused by external or internal restraints as rction in moisture content develops.
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| In asphalt paving, interconnected cracks forming a series of large blocks usually with sharp corners or angles; frequently they are caused by volume change in either the asphalt mix or in the base or subgrade.
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| Reinforcing bars laid at right angles to the principal bars in a member, for the purpose of preventing excessive cracking caused by drying shrinkage or temperature stresses in concrete.
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| 1. In gypsumboard joints, a slight concave depression in the joint treatment usually due to using too thin a mix of joint compound; also called a Starved Joint. 2. The decrease in volume, or contraction, of a material by the escape of any volatile substance, or by a chemical or physical change in the material. 3. Decrease in volume on drying. 4. Loss of bulk of soil when compacted in a fill; usually is computed on the basis of bank measure.
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| Housing over condenser, evaporator or fan.
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| The digging out of a shrub with its root system intact, to relocate it to a different place.
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| A conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted.
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| A valve used in a supply line to either turn on the liquid or turn it off, seldom used to rce flow.
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| French. System International d Unites; International System of Units.
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| Describes situations in which building occupants experience acute health or discomfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a particular building, but where no specific illness or cause can be identified; the complaints may be localized in a particular room or zone, or may be spread throughout the building.
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| Wood strip flooring that is tongued and grooved on sides and ends.
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| A slope that crosses the line of work.
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| The vertical pieces to a window or door opening on which the door or window rest.
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| A board from the outer portion of the log. ordinarily one produced when squaring off a log for a tie or timber.
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| seam running the length of the carpet; also called a Length Seam.
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| A vent that connects to the drain pipe through a 45 degree Y or less.
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| The space between a building and the side property line.
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| Flat-grained lumber.
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| The shortest distance in inches in which horizontally adjacent elements of roofing overlap each other.
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| A tall, narrow window alongside a door.
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| steel or aluminum doors in the plane of a sidewalk leading to a basement area.
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| A walk for pedestrians at the side of a street.
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| see Steel Siding.
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| The outside finish of an exterior wall.
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| A pigment obtained from the earth which is brownish yellow when raw; orange red or reddish brown when burnt.
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| Determination of the proportions of particles of the granular material lying within certain size ranges on sieves of different size openings; see Gradation.
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| A metallic sheet or plate, woven wire cloth, or similar device, with regularly spaced openings of uniform size, mounted in a suitable frame or holder for use in separating material according to size; also called a Screen; in laboratory work an apparatus in which the apertures are square for separating sizes of material.
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| see Sight Glass.
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