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noun, verb, -raced, -rac⋅ing.| 1. | a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, esp. one of a series of levels rising one above another. |
| 2. | the top of such a construction, used as a platform, garden, road, etc. |
| 3. | a nearly level strip of land with a more or less abrupt descent along the margin of the sea, a lake, or a river. |
| 4. | the flat roof of a house. |
| 5. | an open, often paved area connected to a house or an apartment house and serving as an outdoor living area; deck. |
| 6. | an open platform, as projecting from the outside wall of an apartment; a large balcony. |
| 7. | a row of houses on or near the top of a slope. |
| 8. | a residential street following the top of a slope. |
| 9. | to form into or furnish with a terrace or terraces. |
terrace ter·race (těr'ĭs)
v. ter·raced, ter·rac·ing, ter·rac·es
To suture in several rows, as when closing a wound through a considerable thickness of tissue.