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Continuing our If you find it difficult to understand terminology used in a granite busisness don't worry! Use our guide below to clarify technical mambo jamb.
- 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; "safe" a water closet base.
- 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.
- texture
- three dimensional surface enrichment independent of color.
- thin stone
- stone slabs generally of two inches or less in thickness.
- thin marble
- a fabricated marble unit of 2 inches (50 mm) thick.
- 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 of deflect rain water from the wall face.
- tooled finished
- customarily are four, six or eight parallel, concave grooves to the inch.
- tracery
- ornamentation of panels, circular windows, window heads, etc.
- translucence
- permitting light to pass through with little diffusing. Certain marble varieties are translucent.
- travertine
- a form of limestone precipitated from ground waters, as in caves or in orifices of springs (see limestone group).
- 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 stalactic 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 stalactic 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 sills, 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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