Section 1a- Definitions Part 1 Flashcards
ABS
Acrylonitrile-butadiene styrene
Administrative authority
Dept of Housing, Building and Construction or any person or agency authorized by dept to administer and enforce the Code
Air break
Piping arrangement for drainage system in which a drain from a fixture, appliance or device discharges indirectly into another fixture, receptacle or intercepter at a point below the flood level rim
Air gap (drainage system)
Unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the outlet of a waste pipe and the flood level rim of the receptacle into which it’s discharging
Air gap (water distribution system)
Unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between lowest opening from any pipe or faucet supplying water to a tank, plumbing fixture or other device and flood level rim of the receptacle
Anchors
Supports
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
APML
Approved Parts and Materials List
Apprentice
Person in the process of learning the plumbing trade who assists and is under the personal supervision of a licensed master or licensed journeyman plumbing
Approved
Accepted or acceptable under applicable specification stated, established or cited in code
Area drain
Receptacle designed to collect surface or storm water from an open area
ASME
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Aspirator
Fitting or device supplied with water or other fluid under positive pressure, which passed through an integral office or constriction causing a vacuum.(Aka suction apparatus; similar in operation to an ejector)
ASSE
American Society of Sanitary Engineers
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials
Autopsy Table
Fixture or table used for postmortem examination of a body
Backflow
Flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or substances into the distribution pipes of a potable water supply from any source other than its intended source
Backflow connection or cross connection
Arrangement by which backflow could occur
Backflow preventer
Device or means to prevent backflow
Backflow, Reduced Pressure Zone type
Assembly of differential valves and check valves including an automatically opened spillage port to the atmosphere
Back siphonage
Following back of used or contaminated or polluted water from a plumbing fixture or vessel or other sources into a potable water supply due to a negative pressure in a pipe
Basement
Lowest level of a dwelling unit which is wholly or partly below the ground level in which the entrance and exit is made by use of a stairway or other mechanical means and with or without an entrance and exit at the basement floor level
Basement floor drain
Drain placed in the basement floor of a residence that does or does not receive sanitary waste water
Battery of fixtures
Group of 2 or more similar adjacent fixtures that discharge into a common horizontal waste or soil branch
Bedpan hopper
Clinical sink
Bedpan steamer or boiler
Fixture used for scalding bedpans or urinals by direct application of steam of boiling water
Bedpan unit
Small workroom in the nursing area designed and equipped for emptying, cleaning, and sometimes steaming bedpans, and for no other purpose
Bedpan washer and sterilizer
Fixture designed to wash bedpans and to flush the contents into the sanitary drainage system. It can also provide for disinfecting utensils by scalding with steam or hot water
Bedpan washer hose
Device supplied with hot and cold water and located adjacent to a water closet or clinical sink to be used for cleaning bedpans
Boiler blow-off
Outlet on a boiler to permit emptying or discharge of sediment
Boiler blow off tank
Vessel designed to receive the discharge from a boiler blow-off outlet and to cool the discharge to a temperature that permits its safe discharge to the drainage system
Branch
Part of the piping system that extends horizontally, at a slight grade, with or without lateral or vertical extensions or vertical arms, from the main to receive fixture outlets not directly connected to the main.
Branch interval
Distance along a soil or waste stack corresponding in general to a story height, but in no case less than 8 feet, within which the horizontal branches from 1 floor or story of a building are connected to a stack
Branch vent
Vent connecting one or more individual vents with a vent stack or stack vent
Building
Structure having walls and a roof designed and used for the housing, shelter, enclosure or support of persons, animals, or property
Building classification
The arrangement of buildings in classes according to occupancy
Building drain
Part of the lowest piping of a drainage system that receives the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning 2 feet outside the building wall
Combined building drain
Building drain that conveys both sewage and storm water or other drainage
Sanitary building drain
Building drain that conveys sewage only
Storm building drain
Building drain that conveys storm water or other drainage but not sewage