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- Superficies - n. - The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face of a thing.
- Superficies - n. - 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.
- Superficies - n. - 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.
- Section - n. - The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
- Size - n. - Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.
- Term - n. - A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.