Terrace Explained

Terrace may refer to:

Landforms and construction

• Fluvial terrace, a natural, flat surface that borders and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river
• Terrace, a street suffix
• Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk and the street
• Terrace (earthworks), a leveled surface built into the landscape for agriculture or salt production
• Terrace (building), a raised flat platform
• Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
• Terrace (geology), a step-like landform that borders a shoreline or river floodplain
• Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows
• Terrace, the roof of a building, especially one accessible to the residents for various purposes
• Terrace, a sidewalk cafe
• 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
• Terraced wall, a wall which is divided into sections, as in, is not a single wall; they are terraced.

Places

Settlements

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

Other places

• Mutual Street Arena, a defunct ice rink in Toronto, Canada, later a roller-skating rink called The Terrace
• St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, or just Terrace, a private Christian Brothers school in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Terrace F. Club, a Princeton University eating club
• Terraces (Bahá'í), garden terraces at the Shrine of the Bab on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel
• The Terrace, Barnes, a street in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, UK
• The Terrace, Wellington, a major street in Wellington, New Zealand
• The Terrace (Greensboro, North Carolina), a facility at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, US
• The Terrace (Somerville College, Oxford), a café and bar at the University of Oxford, UK

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Terrace, a dome from the video game Super Mario Galaxy
• Terrace (board game), an abstract strategy game played on a terraced board
• Terrace melodic motion in music
• The Terrace, a 1963 Argentine film
• The Terrace, 1909, a painting by Milly Childers

Other uses

• Tone terracing in phonetics

People with the name

Given name

• Terrace Marshall Jr. (born 2000), American football player
• Terrace Martin (born 1978), American rap musician

Surname

• Herbert S. Terrace (born 1936), American psychologist
• Michael Terrace (1925–2018), American dancer and choreographer

See also

• East Terrace, a street in Adelaide, Australia
• North Terrace a street in Adelaide, Australia
• South Terrace (disambiguation)
• West Terrace, Adelaide, a street in Australia
• West Terrace, Barbados, a populated place