Terrace may refer to:

Landforms and construction

Fluvial terrace Fluvial terraces are elongated Terrace (geology), terraces that flank the sides of floodplains and fluvial valleys all over the world. They consist of a relatively level strip of land, called a "tread", separated from either an adjacent floodplai ...

, 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 A terrace garden is a garden with a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooking a prospect. A raised terrace keeps a house dry and provides a transition between the hardscape and the softscape. History Persia Since a level site is ...

, 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 terrace, terraced house ( UK), or townhouse ( US) is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls. In the United States and Canada these are sometimes known as row ...

, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows * Terrace, the

roof A roof (: roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of tempera ...

of a building, especially one accessible to the residents for various purposes * Terrace, a

sidewalk cafe A sidewalk café or pavement café is "a portion of an eating or drinking place, located on a public sidewalk, that provides waiter or waitress service" (as defined by the American Planning Association based upon the New York City planning regul ...

Terrace (stadium) A terrace or terracing in sporting terms refers to the standing area of a sports stadium, particularly in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is a series of concrete steps, with intermittent safety barriers installed at specific loca ...

, 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 Mutual Street Arena, initially called Arena Gardens or just the Arena, was an ice hockey arena and sports and entertainment venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 1912 until 1931, with the opening of Maple Leaf Gardens, it was the premier site o ...

, 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 (solitaire), a solitaire card game also called Queen of Italy * Terrace melodic motion in music * '' The Terrace'', a 1963 Argentine film * '' The Terrace, 1909'', a painting by Milly Childers

Other uses

Tone terracing Tone terracing is a type of phonetic downdrift, where the high or mid tones, but not the low tone, shift downward in pitch ( downstep) after certain other tones. The result is that a tone may be realized at a certain pitch over a short stretch of ...

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