Aggregate

Aggregates
Aggregates can be coarse or fine. This is determined by whether the material passes through a sieve of a specified aperture size or whether the sieve retains them.

Aggregate: Pebbles, shingle, gravel etc. used in the manufacture of concrete, and in the construction of "soakaways".
Airbrick: Perforated brick used for ventilation, especially to floor voids (beneath timber floors) and roof spaces.

Aggregate
- material such as sand or small stones mixed with a binder (usually cement) to produce mortars and concrete.

Aggregate - broken stone, gravel or sand used with cement to form concrete. Aggregates may be coarse or fine and are often used in the construction of "soakaways".

Aggregate - Any granular material used as the main constituent of concrete, mortar and plaster. Aggregate is defined by its size, as coarse, fine, or all-in, its source (natural or artificial) and its shape, e.g. rounded or angular.

Is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a coating for walls and ceilings and for decoration.

ConcreteComposition of cement (calcined lime and clay), aggregate (small stones and rock chippings), sand and water.

The Romans used a cement made only of lime to manufacture a concrete with aggregates of broken bricks and stones.

Made of a precast concrete aggregate of pink granite, the Hirshhorn building is a hollow cylinder that rests on four curved pedestals. Galleries with curved walls expand views of the artworks inside.

Cement mixed with coarse and fine aggregate (pebbles, crushed stone, brick), sand and water in specific proportions. There are three types of concrete precast, reinforced and prestressed.
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Caementa: irregular chunks of stone or terracotta used as a aggregate in Roman concrete; by mixing caementa of different weights, domes (such as the Pantheon) could be constructed with heavy bases and lighter crowns).

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an aggregate of peoples and territories, often of great extent, under the rule of a single person, oligarchy, or sovereign state ...

Concrete - A mixture of sand, cement and aggregate (stone or gravel) that may be reinforced with ferrous metals.
Conical - A furnace cap, resembling or shaped like a cone.

Completely shaded from the sun, a qanat also aggregates the cold, sinking air of the night, which is then trapped within, unable to rise up to the less dense surface air.

coquina - A material used with early Spanish Colonial styled buildings. It is made of limestone made of shell aggregate the Spanish discovered in 1583.
clerestory - the row of large windows in a church, basilica, or cathedral.

very strong and capable of being further fortified by the introduction of steel core bars without detriment to its appearance; it is consistent in quality and special shapes are readily moulded; it is very hard-wearing, especially when the aggregate ...

See also: Cement, Architecture, Concrete, House, Finish