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control area

A building (or portion thereof) in which exempted quantities of hazardous materials may be dispensed, handled, stored, or used

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control

Any device for regulating a system or component during its normal (manual or automatic) operation; it is responsive, during automatic

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contributing chapel

In Spanish Colonial architecture, a chapel usually having no permanent padre to officiate at religious ceremonies, relying instead on the

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contravallation

In military architecture, a series of redoubts and breastworks to guard against sorties of an enemy garrison.

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contrast threshold

1. The minimum perceptible contrast for a given state of adaptation of the eye. 2. The luminance contrast which can

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