Terrace
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A terrace may refer to:
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- Terrace (agriculture)Terrace (agriculture)Terraces are used in farming to cultivate sloped land. Graduated terrace steps are commonly used to farm on hilly or mountainous terrain. Terraced fields decrease erosion and surface runoff, and are effective for growing crops requiring much water, such as rice...
, a leveled surface - Terrace (building)Terrace (building)A terrace is an outdoor, occupiable extension of a building above ground level. Although its physical characteristics may vary to a great degree, a terrace will generally be larger than a balcony and will have an "open-top" facing the sky...
, a raised flat platform - Terrace (geology), a step-like landform that borders a shoreline or river floodplainFloodplainA floodplain, or flood plain, is a flat or nearly flat land adjacent a stream or river that stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls and experiences flooding during periods of high discharge...
- Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
- Terraced houseTerraced houseIn architecture and city planning, a terrace house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great Britain in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls...
, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows - Terrace (stadium)Terrace (stadium)A terrace or terracing in sporting terms refers to the traditional standing area of a sports stadium, particularly in the United Kingdom and Ireland...
, 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 - Fluvial (stream or river) terrace, natural, flat surface or surfaces that border(s) and lies above the floodplainFloodplainA floodplain, or flood plain, is a flat or nearly flat land adjacent a stream or river that stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls and experiences flooding during periods of high discharge...
of a streamStreamA stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...
or riverRiverA river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...
. - Tone terracingTone terracingTone terracing is a type of phonetic downdrift, where the high or mid tones, but not the low tone, shift downward in pitch after certain other tones...
in phonetics - Terrace melodic motionMelodic motionComplex melodic motion is the quality of movement of a melody, including nearness or farness of successive pitches or notes in a melody. This may be described as conjunct or disjunct, stepwise or skipwise, respectively and involves the use of the complex number, i, in its calculation.Bruno Nettl ...
in music
Places
- Terrace, British ColumbiaTerrace, British ColumbiaTerrace is a city on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada. The Kitselas people, a tribe of the Tsimshian Nation, have lived in the Terrace area for thousands of years. The community population fell between 2001 and 2006 from 12,109 with a regional population of 19,980 to 11,320 and...
, a community in Canada - Terrace, UtahTerrace, UtahTerrace is a ghost town, located in the Great Salt Lake Desert in west-central Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The town was established in 1869 as a Central Pacific Railroad "division point" , on the route of the First Transcontinental Railroad...
, a ghost town in the Great Salt Lake Desert, United States
Proper names
- Terraces (Bahá'í)Terraces (Bahá'í)The Terraces of the Bahá'í Faith, also known as the Hanging Gardens of Haifa, are garden terraces around the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. They are one of the most visited tourist attractions in Israel. The architect is Fariborz Sahba from Iran...
, nineteen terraces that beautify the Bahá'í Faith's Shrine of the Bab on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel - Terrace F. Club, a Princeton University eating club
- Terrace (board game)Terrace (board game)Terrace is an award-winning strategy game played by two, three, or four players on a multi-leveled 8×8 board...
, an abstract strategy game played on a terraced board. - St. Joseph's College, Gregory TerraceSt. Joseph's College, Gregory TerraceSt Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace is a Greater Public Schools private, Roman Catholic, day school for boys only, located in Spring Hill, an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia...
, a private Christian Brothers school in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, commonly known as Terrace - Mutual Street ArenaMutual Street ArenaMutual Street Arena, initially called Arena Gardens or just the Arena, was an ice hockey arena and sports and entertainment venue in Toronto, Ontario...
, originally, Arena Gardens, the first artificial ice rink in Toronto, Canada, it was later converted to a roller skating rink bearing the name 'The Terrace.'
See also
- The TerraceThe TerraceThe Terrace is a 1963 Argentine drama film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Graciela Borges - Claudia* Leonardo Favio - Rodolfo* Marcela López Rey - Vicky...
, a 1963 Argentine film