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Definition
- Oak Floor 1 like
- A popular type of flooring, generally fitted with small tongue and groove oak strips
- Oak Veneer 1 like
- A thin oak layer glued to another wood to produce a decorative facing; commonly seen as white oak and red oak
- Oatmeal Paper 0 likes
- Wallpaper created by scattering sawdust over a surface with glue on it
- Obelisk2 likes
- A stone pillar, often a monument with a square base and oblique sides that taper like a pyramid to form a pointed top
- Oblique 2 likes
- An angle; not parallel or perpendicular; sloping
- Oblique Slip Fault 1 like
- A combination of faults where the movement is diagonal along the fault plane dip
- Obscure Glass1 like
- Glass that transfers light but which can’t be seen through
- Obsolescence 0 likes
- Not useful any longer; out of date
- Obtuse Angle 2 likes
- Angle between 90 degrees and 180 degrees in size
- Obtuse Triangle 1 like
- A triangle with one angle that is more than 90 degrees
- OC 1 like
- On center; describes the spacing of framing elements from the centers of adjacent members in a building; also seen as O/C
- See Oxygen Cutting
- Occupancy 1 like
- The rate of occupation of a place
- Use of a building, such as a school, restaurant, residence or office
- Occupancy Importance Factor (I) 0 likes
- Building code terminology used to identify important occupancies
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) 0 likes
- U.S. Department of Labor/OSHA, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington DC, Tel: (202) 219-7725, URL: www.osha.gov
- Octyl Alcohol-Ethyl Hexanol 0 likes
- Chemical in absorption machines that diminishes the absorber’s surface tension
- Office Building 0 likes
- A building containing several business offices
- Office Cubicle 1 like
- A compartment with fixed or movable walls which houses a person who works in an office
- Office Park 3 likes
- A prearranged group of office buildings with shared management, landscaping, parking, and other facilities
- Office Partition2 likes
- Portable interior wall that separates an office area
- Office Safe1 like
- A strong container with a lock that secures money or valuables in an office; usually fire-resistant
- Office Trailer 2 likes
- A vehicle used to conduct business activities on a job site
- Offset Cabinet Construction 1 like
- Constructing cabinets so the back corners of the doors and drawer fronts overlap the face frame and hide the joint
- Ogee 0 likes
- A decorative curved section of a moulding, partially convex and partially concave, like an elongated flat S
- Ogee Molding 3 likes
- A molding with a modified flat S-shaped profile
- Ohm (R) 0 likes
- Measures the resistance of an electrical current; occurring when a volt creates an ampere of current to flow
- Ohmmeter1 like
- This instrument calculates resistance measured in ohms
- Ohms Law 2 likes
- The electrical law that defines the ampere, voltage and resistance relationship; equation: Amperes (I) x Ohms (R) = Volts (V)
- Oil Absorption 0 likes
- The measure of the rate at which oil absorption occurs in pigments
- Oil Base Caulking 2 likes
- Distributed by tube, caulking is created from resins and oil substances
- Oil Binding 0 likes
- An occurrence caused by a layer of oil above a liquid refrigerant whereby the refrigerant is unable to evaporate at the usual pressure and temperature
- Oil Burner Nozzle1 like
- A device that sprays a mist of atomized fuel oil; the combustion properties of the fuel are enhanced
- Oil Colors 1 like
- A paste derived from crushing colors in linseed oil
- Oil Fired Boiler 1 like
- A vessel in which oil is heated and sent to a pressurized nozzle, from which it is then dispensed as a mist and lit via electric spark
- Oil Furnace2 likes
- A furnace used to burn oil to produce heat
- Oil Length 0 likes
- A measurement used to grade varnish by oil length by calculating the gallons of oil present in 100 pounds of resin; short–oil varnish is weaker than long-oil varnish; a common long-oil varnish is spar varnish, while a common short–oil varnish is rubbing varnish
- Oil Separator2 likes
- Oil is removed from gaseous refrigerants with this device
- Oil Soluble 0 likes
- Ability to be dissolved when exposed to oil
- Oil Stain 0 likes
- A stain for wood which is comprised of dyes that are oil soluble and solvents like turpentine; will penetrate wood pores and may bleed
- Oil Switch1 like
- Typically fitted in a vent pipe, this switch or relay allows the burner to be turned off within a 45 second time period when a stack is unable to reach a fixed temperature following the start of the motor
- Oil Tank 1 like
- The storage vessel in which heating oil is held for use in the future by a furnace system that burns oil or an oil burner
- Oil Varnish 2 likes
- A varnish created by the combination of hard resin, drying oil, and a drier that has been thinned with an unstable solvent; evaporation dries the solvent following application, then as a result of oxidation, the oil dries
- Oil-Canning 1 like
- Deformation of metal panels made of thin-gauge which are attached to prevent normal thermal passage
- Oilcloth Varnish 0 likes
- Varnish which is usually elastic and extremely flexible
- Oiticica Oil 1 like
- A drying oil extracted from the oiticica tree nut
- Old Growth 2 likes
- Timber obtained from a mature forest; the trees are grown mostly or completely alongside their counterparts; the wood is usually straight and untangled
- Olefin 0 likes
- A synthetic polymer which is long-chained made of minimum 85 percent by of propylene, ethylene or other olefin components by weight; polypropylene has been manufactured as fiber for carpets
- Olefin Plastics 1 like
- Products of plastic nature based on resins produced from a high amount of olefins by weight; the most commonly found olefin plastics in pipe are polybutylene, polyethylene and polypropylene
- Oleoresinous Varnish 1 like
- A varnish made of resin or gum mixed in a drying oil that solidifies as it mixes with the oxygen in air
- Olive Knuckle Hinge 2 likes
- A hinge, paumelle in nature, with knuckles that produce an oval shape

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