Terrace
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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 or Stream terrace, 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
- Terrace (building) outdoor section of a house in an apartment building
- 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.
- St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, prestigious Brisbane boys college located on Gregory Terrace.
- 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:
- Bahá'í Terraces, are nineteen terraces that beautify the Bahá'í Faith's Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
- Terrace, British Columbia, a community in Canada
- Terrace Club, a Princeton University eating club
- Terrace (board game), an abstract strategy game
- "Evergreen Terrace" is a fictional street where The Simpsons live
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