Terrace

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Terrace may refer to:

Landforms and construction

  • Fluvial terrace, a natural, flat surface that borders and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river
  • Terrace, a street suffix
  • Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk and the street
  • Terrace (earthworks), a leveled surface built into the landscape for agriculture or salt production
  • Terrace (building), a raised flat platform
  • Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
  • Terrace (geology), a step-like landform that borders a shoreline or river floodplain
  • Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows
  • Terrace, the roof of a building, especially one accessible to the residents for various purposes
  • Terrace, a sidewalk cafe
  • Terrace (stadium), standing spectator areas, especially in Europe and South America, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for practical or decorative purposes
  • Terraced wall, a wall which is divided into sections, as in, is not a single wall; they are terraced.

Places

Settlements

  • Terrace, British Columbia, a community in Canada
  • Terrace, Utah, a ghost town in the Great Salt Lake Desert, US

Other places

  • Mutual Street Arena, a defunct ice rink in Toronto, Canada, later a roller-skating rink called The Terrace
  • St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, or just Terrace, a private Christian Brothers school in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • Terrace F. Club, a Princeton University eating club
  • Terraces (Bahá'í), garden terraces at the Shrine of the Bab on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel
  • The Terrace, Barnes, a street in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, UK
  • The Terrace, Wellington, a major street in Wellington, New Zealand
  • The Terrace (Greensboro, North Carolina), a facility at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, US
  • The Terrace (Somerville College, Oxford), a café and bar at the University of Oxford, UK

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Terrace, a dome from the video game Super Mario Galaxy
  • Terrace (board game), an abstract strategy game played on a terraced board
  • Terrace melodic motion in music
  • The Terrace, a 1963 Argentine film
  • The Terrace, 1909, a painting by Milly Childers

Other uses

  • Tone terracing in phonetics

People with the name

Given name

  • Terrace Marshall Jr. (born 2000), American football player
  • Terrace Martin (born 1978), American rap musician

Surname

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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