Pavement may refer to:
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Pavement (architecture)
Pavement, in construction, is an outdoor floor or superficial surface covering. Paving materials include asphalt, concrete, stones such as flagstone, cobblestone, and setts, artificial stone, bricks, tiles, and sometimes wood. In landscape arc ...
, an outdoor floor or superficial surface covering
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Road surface
A road surface (British English), or pavement (American English), is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway. In the past, gravel road surfaces, hoggin, cob ...
, the durable surfacing of roads and walkways
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Asphalt concrete
Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac, bitumen macadam, or rolled asphalt in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parkin ...
, a common form of road surface
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Sidewalk
A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English), footpath in Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, or footway, is a path along the side of a street, highway, terminals. Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick, stone ...
or pavement, a walkway along the side of a road
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Cool pavement, is pavement that delivers higher solar reflectance than conventional dark pavement.
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Pavement (York), a street in York, in England
Geology
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Limestone pavement, a naturally occurring landform that resembles an artificial pavement
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Desert pavement
A desert pavement, also called reg (in the western Sahara), serir (eastern Sahara), gibber (in Australia), or saï (central Asia) is a desert surface covered with closely packed, interlocking angular or rounded rock fragments of pebble and cob ...
, a desert ground surface covered with closely packed rock fragments of pebble and cobble size
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Tessellated pavement, a rare sedimentary rock formation that occurs on some ocean shores
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Glacial striation
Glacial striations or striae are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion. These scratches and gouges were first recognized as the result of a moving glacier in the late 18th century when Swiss alpinists first associated them w ...
or glacial pavement, a rock surface scoured and polished by glacial action
Arts and entertainment
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Pavement (band)
Pavement is an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California, in 1989. For most of their career, the group consisted of Stephen Malkmus (vocals and guitar), Scott Kannberg (guitar and vocals), Mark Ibold (bass), Steve West (d ...
, an indie rock band from Stockton, California, US
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''Pavement'' (magazine), a youth culture magazine
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"Pavement" (''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''), a television episode
See also
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Portuguese pavement
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
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, the traditional paving used in most pedestrian areas in Portugal
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Pave (disambiguation)
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PAVE, a United States military electronic system program
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