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This the Stone Terms dictionary. You may find the meanings of some stone related words and phrases.
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Tablet : A small, flat slab or surface of stone, especially one bearing or intended to bear an inscription, carving or the like.
Template : a pattern for repetitive marking or fabricating operation.
Terrazzo : a type of concrete in which chips or pieces of stone, usually marble, are mixed with cement and are ground to a flat surface, exposing the chips, which take a high polish.
Thin marble : a fabricated marble unit of w inches (50 mm) or less in thickness.
Tile : a thin modular stone unit.
Tolerance : dimensional allowance made for the inability of men and machines to fabricate a product of exact dimensions.
Throat : the name sometimes given to the small groove under the windowsill or dripstone intended to deflect rainwater from the wall face.
Tooled finish : customarily has four, six, or eight parallel, concave grooves to the inch.
Tracery : ornamentation of panels, circular windows, window heads, etc.
Translucence : the light-emitting quality of certain marble varieties containing a crystal structure capable of transmitting light.
Travertine limestone : a variety of limestone that has a partly crystalline or microcrystalline texture and porous or cellular layered structure, the cells being usually concentrated along certain layers and commonly displaying small stalactitic forms.
Travertine marble : a variety of limestone regarded as a product of chemical precipitation from hot springs. Travertine is cellular with the cells usually concentrated in thin layers that display a stalactitic structure. Some that take a polish are sold as marble and may be classified as travertine marble under the class of commercial marble.
Tread : a flat stone used as the top-walking surface on steps.
Trim : stone used as decorative items only, such as sill, coping, enframements, etc., with the facing of another material.
Trimmer arch : a stone arch, usually a low-rise arch, used for supporting a fireplace hearth.
Tuff : cemented volcanic ash, many varieties included.
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