superficies

IPA: supɝfˈɪʃɪz

noun

  • (geometry) A two-dimensional magnitude that has length and breadth; especially such a surface that forms the boundary of a solid.
  • The area of a two-dimensional surface.
  • The visible, external surface of a body.
  • The surface (of something immaterial, especially of the mind or soul).
  • (law) A building intimately associated with the land on which it is built.
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Examples of "superficies" in Sentences

  • Certainly not with a heartfelt froufrou letter (which, on the superficies, is immediately insulting).
  • You should have the sugar-box by you, to strew on sugar from time to time, as you eat off the superficies, that is strewed over with sugar.
  • That the country has the ninth largest superficies in the world one million square miles for a population ranking 62 could have attracted the attention.
  • Watteau -- Watteau the painter -- not that superficies which is more or less familiar to every hack, be he limner or penman, who dabbles in the eighteenth century.
  • We cannot call a man's work superficial when it is the creation of a world; a man cannot be accused of dealing superficially with the world which he himself has created; the superficies is the world.
  • The superficies is a limitation of the body. 2, and the limitation of a body is no part of that body. 4, and the limitation of one body is that which begins another. 3, that which is not part of any body is nothing.

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