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patio: usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) provide (a house) with a terrace; "We terrassed the country house" a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face); "Grosvenor Terrace" make into terraces as for cultivation; "The Incas terraced their mountainous land"
Ãâó: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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French terrassa "stepped area" Stepped area, which is made by fresh water, which slams into the rock of cushion or into the stream deposit dumped on its own.
Ãâó: library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00904/eng/szoj.htm
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1. An unroofed, paved area immediately adjacent to a house, often overlooking a yard or garden. 2. Sloping ground that has been carved into flat, stair-like sections.
Ãâó: www.peakagents.ca/glossary/t4.htm
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1). Bench-like portions of a former flat river floodplain left at higher levels by the downcutting action of a river; alluvial terraces and river terraces are generally considered as synonymous.2). An artificially leveled field or series of fields made on sloping land.
Ãâó: www.knowledgebank.irri.org/glossary/Glossary/T.htm
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A broad channel, bench, or embankment constructed across the slope to intercept runoff and detain or channel it to protected outlets, thereby reducing erosion from agricultural areas.
Ãâó: www.nsc.org/ehc/glossar2.htm
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