For Air Gap we have terms and definitions in 7 topics. The topics are Electric Motors, Environment, Import Cars, Plumbing, Sanitation, Technology and Wind Energy.

Air Gap (Electric Motors)

The space between the rotating (rotor) and stationary (stator) member in an electric motor.

Air Gap (Environment)

Open vertical gap or empty space that separates drinking water supply to be protected from another water system in a treatment plant or other location. The open gap protects the drinking water from contamination by backflow or back siphonage.

Air Gap (Import Cars)

A small space between parts that are mated magnetically or electrically.

Air Gap (Plumbing)

A device mounted at the back of a kitchen sink, connecting to the drain line between a dishwasher and disposer to allow the dishwasher to discharge freely into the disposer while preventing contaminated water from siphoning back into the dishwasher. Can be any unobstructed vertical opening between the lowest opening of a waste line and the flood level of the device into which it empties to relieve pressure and prevent backflow contamination

Air Gap (Sanitation)

(1) In plumbing, the unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from any pipe or faucet supplying water to a tank or plumbing fixture, or other device, and the flood-level rim of the receptacle. (2) An open vertical drop, or vertical empty space, between a drinking (potable) water supply and the point of use in a wastewater treatment plant. This gap prevents back siphonage because there is no way wastewater can reach the drinking water.

Air Gap (Technology)

This refers to a type of network security where a network is secured, at least in part, by keeping it physically separate from other local networks and the Internet. This can be an effective type of security, but it is also limiting in that clients may not be able to get to all resources they need from a single computer.

Air Gap (Wind Energy)

In a permanent magnet alternator, the distance between the magnets and the laminates.

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