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Design

The art or practice of designing or making designs.

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china paint

Design; Interior design

A low-temperature overglaze fired onto previously glazed and fired ceramic.

chinking

Design; Interior design

The weatherproofing material placed between logs in a log home.

clastic

Design; Interior design

Sediments formed from the breaking up of earlier rocks.

cleavage

Design; Interior design

The tendency of some rocks to split or break along smooth planes that are more or less parallel.

closed grain

Design; Interior design

A wood that exhibits narrow, inconspicuous, annual growth rings is considered closed-grain. Examples are cherry and maple.

column

Design; Interior design

A rounded vertical structural element. Can be functional or decorative.

columnar jointing

Design; Interior design

In igneous rocks, a regular six-sided form of jointing that produces regularly shaped pillars or columns.