Glossary of Terms for Natural Stone and Thin Veneer
If you are starting a stone project, you will encounter new words and phrases. Below are definitions related to stone, stone installations, masonry and thin stone veneer.
- absorption
- acid wash
- adhered
- alkaline
- anchor
- anchorage
- antique finish
- apron
- arch
- ashlar
- back-buttering
- base
- bearing check
- bed
- bed joint
- belt course
- bevel
- bluestone
- bollard
- bond
- buttering
- butt joint
- canopy
- cap or capital
- caulking
- cavity vent
- cavity wall
- chamfer
- chinking
- chiseled edge
- cladding
- cleavage
- cleavage plane
- cleft finish
- cobblestone
- colonnade
- column
- composite
- conglomerate
- control joint
- coping
- cornerstone
- cornice
- course
- coursed veneer
- cut stone
- damp proofing
- diamond sawed
- dovetail slot
- dowel
- drip
- efflorescence
- elevation
- epoxy resin
- etched
- expansion anchor or bolt
- expansion-contraction joint
- exposed face
- fabricated
- face
- fascia
- fieldstone
- fines
- finish
- fissure
- flagstone
- flamed finish
- fleuri cut
- fluting
- frieze
- gauged or gauging
- grain
- granite
- guillotine cut
- hand or machine pitch-faced (rock-faced) ashlar
- head
- hone finish
- igneous
- impregnation
- incise
- joint
- jointing scheme
- kerf
- keystone
- lamination
- ledgestone
- lewis bolt
- lewis pin
- limestone
- liners
- lintel
- lippage
- marble
- metamorphic
- miter
- modular multiple-cut
- moldings
- mosaic
- mullion
- natural stone
- niche
- nonstaining mortar
- notch
- off fall
- ogee
- palletizing
- panel
- parapet
- parging
- patina
- paver
- paving
- pedestal
- pediment
- pergola
- pilaster
- pillowed
- pitched stone
- plinth
- pointing
- polished finish
- porphyry
- portico
- quarry
- quartz
- quartz-based stone
- quartzite
- quirk-miter
- quirk-miter joint
- quoin
- rabbet
- rebated kerf
- reglet
- reinforcement
- relief
- reprise
- resin
- return
- reveal
- rift
- rise
- rock (pitch) faced
- rodding
- rough sawn
- rubble
- rusticated masonry
- rustication
- rustic stone
- saddles
- sandblasted
- sawed
- sawed edge
- sawed face
- scabbing
- schist
- scotia
- sculpture
- sealing
- sedimentary
- serpentine
- setter
- setting
- setting space
- shim
- shop drawing
- shop ticket
- sill
- simulated stone
- slab
- slate
- soapstone
- soffit
- soundness
- spall
- spandrel
- splay
- split
- split-faced stone
- spot or spotting
- stacked bond
- sticking
- stool
- template
- terrazzo
- texture
- textured finish
- thermal finish
- thin stone
- thin stone veneer
- threshold
- tile
- tolerance
- translucence
- travertine
- tread
- trim
- tumbled finish
- undercut
- unit
- vein
- vein cut
- veneer
- venting
- wainscot
- wash
- waste factor
- water-jet finish
- waxing
- weathering
- weep holes
- wyth
