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What does hoistway mean?

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Noun
  1. An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a warehouse.
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We rode up to the twenty-eighth floor, a single vast room, with various hoistway openings in the floor, like crevasses.
Immediately following the occurrence, other stevedores entered the hoistway to assist the injured.
The drop car shares a hoistway with another half-elevator, from which a tester can examine the performance of safety brake shoes.
A moment later, the rope hoist main drive unit failed and the platform, with four riders still onboard, free-fell to the bottom of the hoistway.
By means of the aerodynamic fairing, wind noise and pressure waves occurring in the hoistway are reduced to the minimum.
Elevator kinematics describes the motion of an elevator car in a hoistway, regardless of mass or force.

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