Glossary

A light-weight product consisting of portland cement, cement-silica, cement-pozzolan, limepozzolan, or lime-silica pastes, or pastes containing blends of these ingredients […]

(Brit.) A brick or block in which holes, closed at one end, exceed 20% of the volume.

A concrete masonry block which has uniformly distributed pores throughout its mass.

1. In ancient Rome, a small sanctuary in the interior of a small temple. 2. Any small chamber or storeroom.

Passage to or through one or more cellars.

In the Roman or Renaissance Tuscan or Doric orders of architecture, the neck or necking beneath the ovolo of the