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  2. Unreinforced masonry building - Wikipedia

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    An unreinforced masonry building (or UMB, URM building) is a type of building where load bearing walls, non-load bearing walls or other structures, such as chimneys, are made of brick, cinderblock, tiles, adobe or other masonry material that is not braced by reinforcing material, such as rebar in a concrete or cinderblock. [1]

  3. Course (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A wythe may be independent of, or interlocked with, the adjoining wythe(s). A single wythe of brick that is not structural in nature is referred to as a masonry veneer. A standard 8-inch CMU block is exactly equal to three courses of brick. [3] A bond (or bonding) pattern) is the arrangement of several courses of brickwork. [2]

  4. Brick hod - Wikipedia

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    A brick hod is a three-sided box for carrying bricks or other building materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder.

  5. Mudbrick - Wikipedia

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    Mudbrick or mud-brick, also known as unfired brick, is an air-dried brick, made of a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw. Mudbricks are known from 9000 BCE. From around 5000–4000 BCE, mudbricks evolved into fired bricks to increase strength and durability.

  6. Mortar (masonry) - Wikipedia

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    Mortar holding weathered bricks. Mortar is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colours or patterns to masonry walls.

  7. Lego Mindstorms NXT - Wikipedia

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    The code is not compiled to a binary file (unlike other languages for the NXT), but is transmitted to the NXT via Bluetooth. Robotics.NXT Robotics.NXT [25] is a Haskell interface to NXT over Bluetooth. It supports direct commands, messages and many sensors, and supports simple message-based control of an NXT brick via a remotely-executed program.

  8. Brick (electronics) - Wikipedia

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    A brick (or bricked device) is a mobile device, game console, router, computer or other electronic device that is no longer functional due to corrupted firmware, a hardware problem, or other damage. [1] The term analogizes the device to a brick's modern technological usefulness. [2] Brick is also used as a verb to describe a device entering ...

  9. Roman brick - Wikipedia

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    Roman brick is a type of brick used in ancient Roman architecture and spread by the Romans to the lands they conquered, or a modern adaptation inspired by the ancient prototypes. Both types are characteristically longer and flatter than standard modern bricks.