Meaning of superficies | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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 something immaterial, especially of the mind or soul).
5. A building intimately associated with the land on which it is built.

Examples

“The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.”

“An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting. … They present but the cold superficies of character—its rich and genial qualities have no time to be warmed into a flow.”

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