Architectural and Engineering Glossary
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See chrismon.
To coat a metal surface with a rustinhibiting primer of lead or zinc chromate.
The color quality of light definable by its dominant (or complementary) wave length and its purity,taken together.
1.A green pigment made by blending lead chromate yellow and iron blue pigments.2.Chromium oxide.
A very hard wear resistant steel having a high elastic limit;usually contains 2% chromium and from 0.8 to 2% carbon.
A hard,brittle metal resistant to corrosion,workable when annealed,gray-white in color;used in alloys,esp.steel,and in plating.
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A durable green pigment having good alkali resistance;rather expensive and sparingly used.
Abbr.for centigrade heat unit.
See salmon brick.
A piece of glass of unusual thickness;many times thicker than ordinary glass.church An edifice or place of assemblage specifically set apart for Christian worship.
A building used for the social and secular activities of a parish.
Old English for pulpit.
A drill whose cutting action is achieved by raising and dropping a chisel bit.
An open top trough through which bulk materials are conveyed and lowered by gravity.
Same as gemel.
On drawings,abbr.for cast iron.
Abb.for “International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation,”Rotterdam,the Netherlands.
A baldachin.
Abbr.for“Chartered Institution of Building Services.”
Abbr.for “Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage”(International Commission on Illumination).
Abbr.for “cost, insurance,and freight.”
The ornamental carving,such as foliage,around the capital of a column.
British term for sill.
A low,narrow,masonry wall that supports a timber framed structure;keeps the lowest beam (i.e.,the cill beam) dry,and thus prevents it from rotting.
Same as cilery.
See cyma.
A band or fillet around the shaft of a column.
See lead pipe cinch.
A ring of moldings around the top or bottom of the shaft of a column,separating
A lightweight concrete made with cinders as the coarse aggregate.
1.Blast-furnace slag or similar material from volcanoes.2.Ashes,esp.from soft coal.
A depository for urns containing the ashes of the dead.
Renaissance architecture of the 16th cent.in Italy.
A five-lobed pattern divided by cusps;also see foil.
A cusped arch having five foliations worked on the intrados.
Abbr.for “Chartered Institute of Building.”
Abbr.for “cast-iron pipe.”
A small pillar for commemorative inscriptions,boundarymarkers,gravestones,etc.
On drawings,abbr.for circuit breaker.
On drawings,abbr.for “circumference.”
A starting step having the shape of a half circle.
A trowel having a concave or convex blade;used in plastering curved surfaces.
A fluorescent lamp tube bent in the form of a circle;the entire lamp forms a toroid.
1.A continuous electrical path,or a system of conductors,through which an electric current is intended to flow.2.An assembly of pipes and fittings,forming part of a hot-water system,through which water circulates.
An electric device for opening and closing a circuit,designed to open the circuit automatically upon flow of a predetermined value of abnormally high current;may be repeatedly reclosed and reused as an automatic overcurrent protection device without replacement of any components.
Any type of device used to close and/or open an electrical circuit.
In plumbing,a branch vent which serves two or more traps and extends from in front of the last fixture connection of a horizontal branch to the vent stack.
An arch whose intrados takes the form of a segment of a circle.
A barn having a circular plan;requires less building material than a rectangular barn enclosing the same volume,but usually costs somewhat more to construct.Also called a cylindrical barn or a round barn.
In stonework,a face worked to convex circular shape.
