A channel designed expressly for holding wires, cables, or busbars, with additional functions as permitted in this subpart. Raceways may be of metal or insulating material, and the term includes rigid metal conduit, rigid nonmetallic conduit, intermediate metal conduit, liquidtight flexible metal conduit, flexible metallic tubing, flexible metal conduit, electrical metallic tubing, underfloor raceways, cellular concrete floor raceways, cellular metal floor raceways, surface raceways, wireways, and busways.
Raceway may refer to:
English
Etymology
From race + way.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪsˌweɪ/
Noun
raceway (plural raceways)
- A place where races are held; a racetrack.
- An easily-accessible conduit or tray for organizing runs of data or power cabling.
- The canal for the current that drives a water wheel.