Terrace
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A terrace may refer to:
- Terrace (agriculture), a levelled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed to slow or prevent the rapid run-off of irrigation water.
- Terrace (board game), an abstract strategy board game.
- Terrace (building), a paved unroofed space adjoining a building.
- Terrace (gardening), in gardening, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect.
- Terrace deposit, a geologic deposit, or sediment, from an old stream, usually in an elevated aspect relative to the current streamway.
- Terrace, British Columbia, a community in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
- 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 park, not necessarily for seating, but for practical or decorative purposes. The most famous of these was at Crosley Field.
