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Glossary Of Natural Stone Trade Terminologies - T

Tablet - A small, flat slab or surface of china granite ,, 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 china 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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