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noun
A two-dimensional magnitude that has length and breadth; especially such a surface that forms the boundary of a solid.
The area of a two-dimensional surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
A two-dimensional magnitude that has length and breadth; especially such a surface that forms the boundary of a solid.
The visible, external surface of a body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
The surface (of something immaterial, especially of the mind or soul).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A building intimately associated with the land on which it is built.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
outer surface of an area or a body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: surface
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the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial appearance-R.W.Speaight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: appearance, visual aspect
History
Borrowing from Latin superficiēs (“top, surface”), from super- (“above, over”) + faciēs (“form, configuration, shape”). Doublet of surface.
