TL;DR
A wet-pipe sprinkler system is a fire sprinkler design whose piping stays filled with pressurized water at all times, so an opening head discharges instantly with no valves to trip or air to purge. It is the simplest, cheapest, and most reliable of the system types and the default under NFPA 13, 13R, and 13D wherever piping spaces stay above freezing.
What it means
A wet-pipe sprinkler system is a fire sprinkler design whose piping stays filled with pressurized water at all times, so an opening head discharges instantly with no valves to trip or air to purge. It is the simplest, cheapest, and most reliable of the system types and the default under NFPA 13, 13R, and 13D wherever piping spaces stay above freezing. Its single weakness is cold: pipes through unheated attics and garages need insulation, listed antifreeze loops, or a switch to dry-pipe design, and only the heads that sense fire open, not the whole building at once as movies suggest.
Where it sits in the glossary
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