Tile
Small-format unit coverings for walls and floors, in ceramic, porcelain, stone, glass, metal, terrazzo and mixed materials.
How it connects
In other taxonomies
- Wall and floor tile unitsUniclass, Pr_35_93_96nearly the same
- tile (material)Getty AAT, 300010676nearly the same
- tileWikidata, Q468402nearly the same
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Where it sits
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Tile
17 terms, Paint to Other
The word “tile”
3 meanings
Record
The unit form. A tile also carries the family of what it is made of, so a marble tile may carry stone and a glass mosaic glass; a slab sold by the square metre and not by the unit is the material's own shelf. Terrazzo tiles are on terrazzo as well. Defined 2026-10-22; vendored without a definition.
- Relations
- Related to Tile
- Provenance
- authored@instruments/taxonomy published corpus
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material-family/tileKnowledge 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
- related-toTileoutgoing
- related-toTileincoming
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Pr_35_93_96 | Wall and floor tile units | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | 300010676 | tile (material) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q468402 | tile | nearly the same |