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Encyclopedia > Terrace
Look up terrace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A terrace may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in almost every language. ...

  • 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: In agriculture, a terrace is a levelled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed to slow or prevent the rapid run-off of irrigation water. ... A lynchet is a bank of earth that builds up on the downslope of a field ploughed for a long period of time. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... In gardening, a terrace is an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect. ... A street of British Victorian/Edwardian terraced homes. ... The Athens Olympic Stadium A modern stadium (plural stadiums, Latin plural stadia) is a place, or venue, for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event. ... Image:Http://www. ... This is a list of baseball parks containing slopes in a portion of their outfield areas, which were sometimes or often known to affect the course of the game when a fly ball was hit toward that area. ... Melodic motion is the nearness or farness of successive pitches or notes in a melody. ...


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