Metal
Products whose main material is metal: sheet, panel, mesh, tile, trim and cast and fabricated metalwork in steel, aluminium, brass, copper, zinc and bronze.
How it connects
Metal gathers Metal (material) and every kind of it: Ferrous metal, Metallic fibre and Non-ferrous metal.
In other taxonomies
- MetalUniclass, Ma_40_52nearly the same
- metalGetty AAT, 300010900nearly the same
- metalWikidata, Q11426nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Metal
17 terms, Paint to Other
The word “metal”
2 meanings
- MetalMaterial family, this termNo default
- MetalMaterialNo default
Record
material.metal is filed under this family and not placed beneath it. A metal tile or a metal-faced wallcovering carries tile or wallcovering as well. Defined 2026-10-22; vendored without a definition.
- Provenance
- authored@instruments/taxonomy published corpus
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material-family/metalKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterial familyincoming
- has-conceptMaterial familyincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterial familyoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterial familyoutgoing
- filesMetaloutgoing
- filed-underMetalincoming
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Ma_40_52 | Metal | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | 300010900 | metal | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q11426 | metal | nearly the same |