Terrace

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Template:Wiktionarypar A terrace may refer to:

  • Terrace (agriculture), a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed to slow or prevent the rapid run-off of irrigation water (see also Lynchet).
  • Terrace deposit, sediment from an old stream, usually in an elevated aspect relative to the current streamway
  • 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
  • Stadium spectator areas, especially in the United Kingdom, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for practical or decorative purposes. The most famous of these was at Crosley Field. See List of Stadium Terraces.
  • Terrace (Road Name Designation), a suffix to the name of a street as in "Cherry Terrace" which usually denotes a road which is not a main thoroughfare.
  • Terrace melodic motion in music.

The word terrace appears in several specific names:

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