Building structure designed to delay horizontal spread of a fire from one area of a building to another; often regulated by fire code and required to have self-closing doors, and fireproof construction.
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Any wall built for the purpose of restricting or preventing the spread of fire in a building. Such walls of solid masonry or concrete generally sub-divide a building from the foundations to two or more feet above the plane of the roof.
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Any wall built for the purpose of restricting or preventing the spread of fire in a building. Such walls of solid masonry or concrete generally sub-divide a building from the foundations to two or more feet above the plane of the roof.
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Any wall which subdivides a building to resist the spread of fire and which extends continuously from the foundation through the roof.
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a wall of earth built around an oil tank to hold the oil if the tank breaks or burns.
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A combination of hardware and software that separates a Network into two or more parts for security purposes.
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a partition made of fireproof material to prevent the spread of a fire from one part of a building or ship to another or to isolate an engine compartment, as on a plane, automobile, etc. · an integrated collection of security measures designed to prevent unauthorized electronic access to a networked computer system.
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