Terrace

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A terrace may refer to:

  • Terrace (agriculture), a leveled surface
  • Terrace (building), a raised flat platform
  • Terrace deposit, geological term for a flat platform of land
  • Terrace (gardening), an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
  • Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows
  • Terrace (stadium), standing spectator areas, especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for practical or decorative purposes
  • Stream terrace, sediment from an old stream, usually in an elevated aspect relative to the current streamway
  • Tone terracing in phonetics
  • Terrace melodic motion in music

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