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The terms and definitions included in this glossary were taken from "ASHRAE Terminology of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration".
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Term Definition
ceiling

overhead interior lining of a room. See false ceiling; sus­pended ceiling 

 
cell (in a cooling tower)

smallest tower sub­division which can function as an independent heat exchange unit. It is bound­ed by exterior walls or partitions. Each cell may have one or more fans or stacks and one or more dis­tribution systems 

 
centrifugedevice for separating substances of different densi­ties by centrifugal force
 
CER

cooling efficiency ratio 

 
CFC


chlorofluorocarbon 

 
cfm

cubic feet per minute 

 
cfs

cubic feet per second 

 
changeover

1. change from one set of controls to another.

2. change from heating to cooling, or vice versa 

 
channel


1. output of a load-management system; usually corre­sponding to a specific relay.

2. (computer) path along which signals can be sent, e.g., data channel, output channel.

3. portion of a storage medium that is accessible to a given reading station, e.g., track, band.

 
charge (thermal storage)

verb. to supply cooling or heating to storage 

 




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