Terrace

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Terrace may refer to:

• Terrace (agriculture), a leveled surface built into the landscape for agriculture or salt production
• Terrace (building), a raised flat platform
• Terrace (geology), a step-like landform that borders a shoreline or river floodplain
• Terrace garden, 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 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 terrace, a natural, flat surface that borders and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river
• Tone terracing in phonetics
• Terrace melodic motion in music
• Terrace, a street suffix
• The roof of a building, especially one accessible to the residents for various purposes
• A sidewalk cafe

Places

• Terrace, British Columbia, a community in Canada
• Terrace, Utah, a ghost town in the Great Salt Lake Desert, United States

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 F. Club, a Princeton University eating club
• Terrace (board game), an abstract strategy game played on a terraced board
• St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, a private Christian Brothers school in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, commonly known as Terrace
• Mutual Street Arena, 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 Terrace, a 1963 Argentine film
• Terrace, a dome from the video game Super Mario Galaxy