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National Fire Protection Association
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.
A motor vehicle with motive power, with the exception of a trailer, designed to carry 10 or fewer persons that is constructed on a truck chassis or with special features for occasional off-road operations.
Industry:Fire safety
A motor vehicle fuel other than gasoline and diesel.
Industry:Fire safety
A motor vehicle occupant, including the driver and passenger(s).
Industry:Fire safety
A motor having ventilating openings that permit passage of external cooling air over and around the windings of the motor. Where applied to large apparatus without qualification, the term designates a motor having no restriction to ventilation other than that necessitated by mechanical construction.
Industry:Fire safety
A motor that is classified according to mechanical protection and methods of cooling.
Industry:Fire safety
A motor fuel dispensing facility that has one or more attendants or supervisors on duty to dispense motor fuels into fuel tanks or containers whenever the facility is open for business.
Industry:Fire safety
A motor fuel dispensing facility that has an attendant or employee on duty whenever the facility is open for business. The attendant or employee on duty does not typically dispense motor fuels into fuel tanks or containers. The customer or vehicle operator usually conducts the dispensing.
Industry:Fire safety
A motor fuel dispensing facility at or adjacent to shore, a pier, a wharf, or a floating dock where motor fuels are dispensed into the fuel tanks of marine craft.
Industry:Fire safety
A motor fuel dispensing facility at a commercial, industrial, governmental, or manufacturing property where motor fuels are dispensed into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles that are used in connection with the business or operation of that property by persons within the employ of such business or operation.
Industry:Fire safety
A mortised bolt installed near the top or bottom of the inactive leaf of a pair of doors that holds the inactive leaf in a closed position until the active leaf is opened.
Industry:Fire safety