- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
An automatic-latching device that engages in a keeper to hold a door leaf in a closed position and that can only be released manually.
Industry:Fire safety
An automotive-type vehicle for on-road use, such as passenger automobiles, buses, trucks, vans, neighborhood electric vehicles, and the like, primarily powered by an electric motor that draws current from a rechargeable storage battery, fuel cell, photovoltaic array, or other source of electric current. For the purpose of this article, electric motorcycles and similar type vehicles and off-road, self-propelled electric vehicles, such as industrial trucks, hoists, lifts, transports, golf carts, airline ground support equipment, tractors, boats, and the like, are not included.
Industry:Fire safety
An automatic vent damper device that employs electrical energy to control the device.
Industry:Fire safety
An automatically operated appliance for supplying cooled and/or dehumidified air or chilled liquid.
Industry:Fire safety
An automatically operated appliance utilizing a refrigeration system for supplying either heated air or liquid or heated and/or cooled air or liquid.
Industry:Fire safety
An automatically or manually operated device consisting essentially of an oil valve for controlling the fuel supply to a burner.
Industry:Fire safety
An assembly of two insulated conductors within a nonmetallic jacket or an extruded thermoplastic covering. The classification includes surface extensions intended for mounting directly on the surface of walls or ceilings.
Industry:Fire safety
An assembly of central vacuum producing equipment and a network of piping for patient suction in medical, medical-surgical, and waste anesthetic gas disposal (WAGD) applications.
Industry:Fire safety
An audience closer to pyrotechnic devices than permitted by NFPA 1123, CodeforFireworksDisplay.
Industry:Fire safety
An automatic or semiautomatic device consisting essentially of a valve and operator that control the gas supply to the burner(s) during operation of an appliance.
Industry:Fire safety
