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Building dictionary for the letter H - Page 10
Hospital door
A flush door through an opening large enough to allow passage of beds and/or other large equipment.
Hospital door hardware
The special hardware with which hospital doors are often equipped, such as arm pulls, hinges, terminated stops, latches, and strategically placed protective metal strips or plates.
Hospital hinge
A fast pin hinge furnished with a special tip to eliminate the possibility of injuries caused by the projection of conventional hinge tips.
Hospital partition
A system of tracks and curtains used to provide a degree of privacy around beds commonly called hospital cubicles.
Hot
Slang for a live or electrically charged wire or other electrical component.
Hot glue
A glue requiring heating before being used.
Hot mix
Paving made of a combination of aggregate uniformly mixed and coated with asphalt cement. To dry the aggregate and obtain sufficient fluidity of asphalt cement for proper mixing and workability, both the aggregate and asphalt must be heated prior to mixing.
Hot rolled
Descriptive of structural steel members or sections shaped from steel fillets or plates, heated to a plastic state, by passing them through successive pairs of massive steel rollers, each of which serves to bring the product closer to its final, intended shape, such as an angle, channel, or plate.
Hot water boiler
Any heating unit in a hot water heating system in which or by which water is heated before being circulated through pipes to radiators or baseboards throughout a building or portion thereof.
Hot water heating system
One in which hot water is the heating medium. Flow is either gravity or forced circulation.
Hot water supply
The combination of equipment and its related plumbing supplying domestic hot water.
Hot-dip galvanized
Descriptive of iron or steel immersed in molten zinc to provide it with a protective coating.
Hotmelt
A thermoplastic substance almost always heated before being applied as a coating, sealer, or adhesive.
House connection
See house sewer
House drain
In any given plumbing system, as of a house or building, the major lowest horizontal pipe(s) connecting directly to the building sewer just outside the building wall.
House sewer
The exterior horizontal extension of a house drain outside the building wall leading to the main sewer, either public or private, and connecting directly to the sewer pipe.
Housed
(1) Descriptive of a piece or member fitted into another piece or member that has been modified, as by hollowing, gouging, or chiseling. (2) Enclosed.
Housed joint
A usually perpendicular joint formed where the full thickness of one member's edge or end is accepted into a corresponding housing, groove, or dado in another member.
Housed stair
A stair enclosed between two walls.
Hue
(1) The designation of color. (2) Characteristic by which one color differs from another.
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