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Definition: Sprinkler System |
Sprinkler SystemNoun1. A system for extinguishing fires; water from a network of overhead pipes is released through nozzles that open automatically with the rise in temperature. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Wet blanket; fire extinguisher, soda and acid extinguisher, dry chemical extinguisher, CO-two extinguisher, carbon tetrachloride, foam; sprinklers, automatic sprinkler system; fire bucket, sand bucket. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
If the fire spreads, more sprinklers go off, but the sprinklers do not automatically flood an entire building, only in areas where heat is high. Sprinklers have been in use in the United States since 1874.
Cost of sprinklers runs from $2 to $3 a square foot (2002 prices), roughly the same as carpet or tile. They can be installed during construction or retrofitted. More than 200 communities, half of them in California have laws requiring residential sprinkler system. Many cities require them for large commercial buildings and places of assembly.
According to the National Fire Protection Association, fires in hotels with sprinklers averaged 78% less damage than fires in hotels without them (1983-1987). The NFPA says the average loss per fire in buildings with sprinklers was $2,300, compared to an average loss of $10,300 in unsprinklered buildings.
The NFPA states that it "has no record of a fire killing more than two people in a completely sprinklered building where a sprinkler system was properly operating, except in an explosion or flash fire or where industrial fire brigade members or employees were killed during fire suppression operations."
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sprinkler system."
Crosswords: Sprinkler System |
| Specialty definitions using "sprinkler system": balancing reservoirs ♦ caretaker, grounds ♦ GROUNDSKEEPER, INDUSTRIAL-COMMERCIAL ♦ irrigator, overhead, IRRIGATOR, SPRINKLING SYSTEM ♦ LABORER, LANDSCAPE ♦ regulating reservoirs. (references) |
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 | Pivot sprinkler system in Jefferson County. Credit: Howard Johnson. |  | Ranchers in the Salmon Model Watershed are converting flood irrigation systems to sprinkler irrigation systems in efforts to restore the Lemhi River to its former status as prime salmon habitat. A wheel line sprinkler system like this one gives farmers be. Credit: Joel McNee. |
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| Language | Translations for "sprinkler system"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sistem kundër zjarri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | напоителна система. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sprinkleranlage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | öntözõgép (sprinkling-machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | スプリンクラー設備 (splint, sprawl, spray, spray gun, spread, spring, spring camp, spring coat, springboard, sprint, sprinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スプリンクラーせつび. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inklerspray ystemsay противопожарная система. (various references) automatski vodeni tuševi (sprinkler). (various references) sulama sistemi (sprinkler), yağmurlama sistemi (sprinkler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-k-l-m-n-p-r-r-s-s-s-t-y" | |
-4 letters: presentisms, sperrylites. | |
-5 letters: limpnesses, lysimeters, minstrelsy, peristyles, persisters, presentism, primnesses, simpleness, sperrylite, spinsterly, sprinklers, stripeless, trimnesses. | |
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