Terrace
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A terrace may refer to:
- Terrace (agriculture),Terrace (building), a raised flat platform
- Terrace deposit, geological term for a flat platform of land
- 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 (stadium), standing spectator areas, especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for practical or decorative purposes
- Stream terrace, sediment from an old stream, usually in an elevated aspect relative to the current streamway
- Tone terracing in phonetics
- Terrace melodic motion in music
Proper names
- Terraces (Bahá'í), nineteen terraces that beautify the Bahá'í Faith's Shrine of the Bab on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel
- Terrace, British Columbia, a community in Canada
- Terrace Club, a Princeton University eating club
- Terrace (board game), an abstract strategy game
- St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, a School in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.