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 A street suffix is the part of a street or road name that describes what type of road it is. Examples include "street", "avenue", "lane", "highway", and "drive". As they are commonly repeated between roads, they are often abbreviated; for examp ...

* Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk and the street *

Terrace (earthworks) A terrace in agriculture is a flat surface that has been cut into hills or mountains to provide areas for the cultivation for crops, as a method of more effective farming. Terrace agriculture or cultivation is when these platforms are created s ...

, a leveled surface built into the landscape for agriculture or salt production *

Terrace (building) A terrace is an external, raised, open, flat area in either a landscape (such as a park or garden) near a building, or as a roof terrace on a flat roof. Ground terraces Terraces are used primarily for leisure activity such as sitting, strol ...

, 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) In geology, a terrace is a step-like landform. A terrace consists of a flat or gently sloping geomorphic surface, called a tread, that is typically bounded on one side by a steeper ascending slope, which is called a "riser" or "scarp". The trea ...

, 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 terraced wall, also a terrace wall, or a terraced retaining wall is a wall that is divided into sections ( terraces) over a slope. Such designs are useful when building on a steep grade. Terraced walls may be built with many different materi ...

, a wall which is divided into sections, as in, is not a single wall; they are terraced.

Places

Settlements

Terrace, British Columbia Terrace is a city in the Skeena Country, Skeena region of west central British Columbia, Canada. This regional hub lies east of the confluence of the Kitsumkalum River into the Skeena River. On British Columbia Highway 16, BC Highway 16, junctions ...

, 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 St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace (colloquially known as Gregory Terrace, Terrace or GT) is an independent Catholic primary and secondary day school for boys, located in Spring Hill, an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Found ...

, or just Terrace, a private Christian Brothers school in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia * Terrace F. Club, a Princeton University eating club *

Terraces (Bahá'í) 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 an ...

, garden terraces at the Shrine of the Bab on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel *

The Terrace, Barnes The Terrace is a street in Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It forms part of the A3003 road, and runs west from its junction with Barnes High Street and Lonsdale Road to the east, where it becomes Mortlake High Street ...

, a street in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, UK *

The Terrace, Wellington ''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The' ...

, 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 is a 2007 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It is the third 3D platformer game in the ''Super Mario'' series. As Mario, the player embarks on a quest to rescue Princess Peach and save the universe from Bowser, af ...

'' * ''Terrace'' (board game), an abstract strategy game played on a terraced board *

Terrace (solitaire) Queen of Italy (also known as Terrace) is a patience or card solitaire game played with two packs of playing cards. It is a very strategic game that rewards careful planning, since the cards that potentially block the game are presented at the st ...

, a solitaire card game also called Queen of Italy * Terrace

melodic motion Melodic motion is the quality of movement of a melody, including nearness or farness of successive pitches or notes in a melody. This may be described as conjunct or disjunct, stepwise, skipwise or no movement, respectively. See also contrapun ...

in music * ''

The Terrace ''The Terrace'' () is a 1963 Argentine drama film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and starring Graciela Borges, Leonardo Favio, Marcela López Rey and Héctor Pellegrini. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. Ca ...

'', a 1963 Argentine film * ''

The Terrace, 1909 ''The Terrace, 1909'' is a landscape painting by Milly Childers showing the members' terrace of the Palace of Westminster with its view of the River Thames looking towards Lambeth Bridge. It is held by the Parliamentary Art Collection. Paint ...

'', 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 Terrace Jamahl Martin (born December 28, 1978) is an American musician, rapper, singer, and record producer. He is perhaps best known for producing records for several prominent artists in the music industry, including Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dog ...

(born 1978), American rap musician

Surname

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