Brick
Fired clay masonry material, named as the substance rather than as the masonry unit, its bond or its color.
How it connects
Brick is a kind of Ceramic.
Other kinds of Ceramic: Earthenware, Porcelain, Sintered stone and Stoneware.
In other taxonomies
- brick (clay material)Getty AAT, 300010463nearly the same
- brickWikidata, Q40089nearly the same
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
The word “brick”
2 meanings
- BrickMaterial, this termNo default
- brickColorScope named colorNo default
Record
- Broader
- Ceramic
- Provenance
- referencedWikidata Q40089 brick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40089, read 11 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/brickKnowledge 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-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderCeramicoutgoing
- narrowerCeramicincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Ceramicoutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Mineraloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Earthenwareoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Porcelainoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Sintered stoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Stonewareoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300010463 | brick (clay material) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q40089 | brick | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026Brick via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/search?query=Brick&filter=status%3ACurrent | none |