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The purely external aspect of a thing
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superficies
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Wikipedia
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Superficies is a Latin legal term referring to anything which is placed upon and attached to the ground, and most commonly refers to a building erected on land owned by another.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Superficies \Su`per*fi"cies\, n. [L., fr. super above, over + facies make, figure, shape. See Surface .] The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face of a thing. (Civil Law) Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of a building, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context geometry English) A two-dimensional magnitude that has length and breadth; especially such a surface that forms the boundary of a solid 2 The area of a two-dimensional surface. 3 The visible, external surface of a body 4 The 'surface' (of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial appearance; "the audience was held by the substance of the play rather than by the superficies of the production"-R.W.Speaight outer surface of an area or a body
Usage examples of superficies.
The Moone doth there appeare clearest, where shee is transpicuous, not onely through the superficies, but the substance also, and there she seemes spotted, where her body is most opacous.
Peradventure the actual food consists of the micro-organisms in the slush and on the superficies of the unassimilatable solids.
Go into his temple in Western China, and you will find this deity dripping with plasters, with scarcely an undesecrated space on his superficies.
It snapped off just above the bearing and took flight, deflating into a flaccid carcass beneath the short-lived fireballs puffing open across its superficies.
When our starship came through the superficies into normal space in the Nespelem solar system, Jack tried to farspeak Marc with no success.
Three, in so far as it gives the first plane figure, suggests superficies.