The surface; the exterior part of a thing. A superficies consists of length and breadth; as the superficies of a plate or of a sphere. superficies is rectilinear, curvilinear, plane, convex or concave.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face of a thing.
2. Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of a building, so closely connected by art or nature as to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc.
3. A real right consisting of a grant by a landed proprietor of a piece of ground, bearing a strong resemblance to the long building leases granted by landholders in England, in consideration of a rent, and under reservation of the ownership of the soil.
Exteriority Roget’s Thesaurus §220
N. exteriority, outside, exterior, # surface, superficies, skin, superstratum, disk, disc, face, facet, extrados, excentricity, eccentricity, circumjacence
V. be exterior, lie around, place exteriorly, place outwardly, place outside, put out, turn out
Adj. exterior, external, outer most, outward, outlying, outside, outdoor, round about, extramural, extralimitary, extramundane, superficial, skin-deep, frontal, discoid, extraregarding, excentric, eccentric, outstanding, extrinsic, ecdemic, exomorphic
Adv. externally, out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out of doors, extra muros, in the open air, sub jove, sub dio, a la belle etoile, al fresco
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