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ter.

 
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1. (in prescriptions) rub. Origin:
< L tere
2. terrace.
3. territorial.
4. territory.
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Ter.  
abbr.  
  1. terrace
  2. territory
ter·race   (těr'ĭs)   
n.  
    1. A porch or walkway bordered by colonnades.
    2. A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or apartment building.
    3. A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.
    4. A section of row houses.
    5. Abbr. Ter. or Terr. A residential street, especially on a slope or hill.
  2. An open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.
  3. A raised bank of earth having vertical or sloping sides and a flat top: turning a hillside into a series of ascending terraces for farming.
  4. A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.
    1. A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.
    2. A section of row houses.
    3. Abbr. Ter. or Terr. A residential street, especially on a slope or hill.
  6. A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.
  7. Chiefly Upper Northern & Midwestern U.S. See parking. See Regional Note at parking.
tr.v.   ter·raced, ter·rac·ing, ter·rac·es
  1. To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces.
  2. To form (a hillside or sloping lawn, for example) into terraces.

[French, from Old French, from Old Provençal terrassa, from Vulgar Latin *terrācea, feminine of *terrāceus, earthen, from Latin terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots.]
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Ter.
  1. terrace
  2. territory
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