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Hold harmless
A clause of indemnification by which an insurance carrier agrees to assume his client's contractual obligation and to assume responsibility in certain situations which otherwise might be the obligation of the other party to the contract.
Hold-down bolt
See anchor bolt
Holding tank
A tank used for temporary storage of chemicals or materials being processed.
Hole saw
An attachment used with a power drill to cut holes.
Holiday
A small area inadvertently missed during painting or other surfacing applications.
Hollow block
See hollow masonry unit.
Hollow brick
A hollow clay masonry unit in which the net cross-sectional area is at least 60%.
Hollow core door
A hollow-core door filled with a lightweight, honeycomb-shaped, expanded material to provide rigidity and support.
Hollow masonry wall
See cavity wall.
Hollow metal door
A hollow-core door constructed of channel- reinforced sheet metal. The core may be filled with some type of lightweight material.
Hollow metal frame
A door frame constructed of sheet metal with reinforcing at hinges and strikes.
Hollow partition
A partition constructed of hollow blocks or in two separate sections between which a void is left for accepting a sliding door and/or acoustic or thermal insulation.
Hollow-backed
Descriptive of the unexposed surface of a piece of wood, stone, or other material, intentionally hollowed to render a snug fit against an irregular surface.
Hollow-core door
A flush door with plywood or hardwood faces secured over a skeletal framework, the interior remaining void or honeycombed
Homogeneous
Similar in structure, composition, appearance, or texture.
Hone
A smooth, fine-grained stone against which a tool's cutting edge is worked to achieve a finish edge much sharper than that yielded by the coarser stone used in preliminary sharpening procedures. Usually an oil is used in the process to carry off minute particles of loose stone and metal to prevent them from clogging the pores on the stone's surface.
Honed finish
The very smooth surface of stone effected by manual or mechanical rubbing.
Honeycomb
(1) In concrete, a rough, pitted surface resulting from incomplete filling of the concrete against the formwork, often caused by using concrete that is too stiff or by not vibrating it sufficiently after it has been poured. (2) Voids in concrete resulting from the incomplete filling of the voids among the particles of coarse aggregate, often caused by using concrete that is too stiff. (3) In sandwich panel construction or in some hollow-cored doors, resin-impregnated paper is fabricated into a network of small, interconnected, open-ended, tubular hexagons laminated between two face panels to provide internal support.
Honeycomb wall
A brick wall whose face contains a pattern of openings created by missing units or gaps between stretchers, sometimes used under floors to provide ventilation and/or joist support.
Hood
(1) A protective cover over an object or opening. (2) A cover, sometimes including a fan, a light fixture, fire extinguishing system, and/or grease filtration/extraction system, and supported, hung, or secured to a wall such as above a cooking stove chimney, or to draw smoke, fumes, and odors away from the area and into a flue. (3) A curved baffle used to minimize scattering and separation of material discharged by a conveyor belt.
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