Title to property without liens, defects or legal encumbrances of any kind.
Clearance
The clear space or distance between moving objects or mechanical parts or between a moving object and that which it passes through.
Cleat
(1) Length of material attached to a surface for traction. (2) Piece of wood or metal, which is fastened to, a structural member to support or provide an attaching point for another member. (3) Device with horizontal projections around which a rope can be wound to tie it off. (4) Wedge fastened to a surface.
Cleating method
Installation of cleats on existing joists and beams to support additional joists that are added.
Cleavage membranes
Sheeting or underlayment panel that separates the backing surface from the mortar bed and tile, required when the surface to be tiled is in poor or unsuitable condition or may be damaged by water.
Cleavage of lateral epitaxial films for transfer (cleft)
A process for making inexpensive Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) photovoltaic cells in which a thin film of GaAs is grown atop a thick, single-crystal GaAs (or other suitable material) substrate and then is cleaved from the substrate and incorporated into a cell, allowing the substrate to be reused to grow more thin-film GaAs.
Clerestory
An outside wall of a room or building that rises above an adjoining roof and contains windows.
Clerestory window
Window situated on top of a vertical structure to furnish air and light for the inside. Raised section of roof with windows. Wall of a church or any similar windowed wall, which rises above the roofs of the flanking aisles and contains windows for lighting the central part of the structure.
Clevis
A U-shaped piece of metal with holes in the ends through which a pin is run to attach to pipes.
Clevis hanger
A type of pipe hanger with a swivel yoke supported at the top by an adjustable vertical rod. This yoke bolts to pin holding a U-strap of metal (clevis) that supports the pipe.
