Pavement(s) or paving may refer to:
Surfacing
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Road surface
A road surface (British English) or pavement (North 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, macadam, ...
, the durable surfacing of roads and walkways
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Sidewalk
A sidewalk (North American English),
pavement (British English, South African English), or footpath (Hiberno-English, Irish English, Indian English, Australian English, New Zealand English) is a path along the side of a road. Usually constr ...
, a walkway along the side of a road, called a pavement in British English
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Asphalt concrete
Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and Tarmacadam, tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface road surface, roads ...
, a common form of road surface
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Cool pavement, pavement that delivers higher solar reflectance than conventional dark pavement
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Crazy paving, a means of hard-surfacing used outdoors
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Nicolson pavement, a road surface material consisting of wooden blocks
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Pavers (flooring), an outdoor floor done in blocks
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Permeable paving, paving that enables stormwater to flow through it or between gaps
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Portuguese pavement, the traditional paving used in most pedestrian areas in Portugal
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Resin-bound paving, a mixture of aggregate stones and resin used to pave footpaths, driveways, etc.
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Tactile paving, textured ground surface indicators to assist vision-impaired pedestrians
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Whitetopping, the covering of an existing asphalt pavement with a layer of Portland cement concrete
Geology
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Desert pavement
A desert pavement, also called reg (in western Sahara), serir (in eastern Sahara), gibber (in Australia), or saï (in central Asia) is a desert surface covered with closely packed, interlocking angular or rounded rock fragments of pebble and ...
, a desert ground surface covered with closely packed rock fragments
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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 ...
or glacial pavement, a rock surface scoured and polished by glacial action
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Limestone pavement
A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial Sidewalk, pavement. The term is mainly used in the UK and Ireland, where many of these landforms have devel ...
, a naturally occurring landform that resembles an artificial pavement
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Tessellated pavement, a rare sedimentary rock formation that occurs on some ocean shores
Geography
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Pavement (York), a street in York, England
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Finsbury Pavement, a street in London, England
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High Pavement, a street in Nottingham, England
* Low Pavement, a street in Nottingham, England; see
10, Low Pavement
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 (dr ...
, an indie rock band from Stockton, California, US
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''Pavements'' (film), a 2024 film about the band
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''Pavement'' (magazine), a youth culture magazine
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"Pavement" (''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''), an episode of the American animated TV series ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''
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Pave (disambiguation)
PAVE is a United States Air Force program identifier relating to electronic systems. Prior to 1979, Pave was said to be a Code word (communication), code word for the Air Force unit responsible for the project. ''Pave'' was used as an inconseque ...
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Pavement engineering, branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to design and maintain flexible (asphalt) and rigid (concrete) pavements
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