Terrace

A terrace may refer to:

Terrace (agriculture), a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed to slow or prevent the rapid run-off of irrigation water (see also Lynchet).
Terrace deposit or Stream terrace, sediment from an old stream, usually in an elevated aspect relative to the current streamway
Terrace (gardening), an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows
Stadium spectator areas, especially in the United Kingdom, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for practical or decorative purposes. The most famous of these was at Crosley Field. See List of Stadium Terraces.
Terrace (Road Name Designation), a suffix to the name of a street as in "Cherry Terrace" which usually denotes a road which is not a main thoroughfare.
Terrace melodic motion in music.

The word terrace appears in several specific names:

Bahá'í Terraces, are nineteen terraces that beautify the Bahá'í Faith's Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
Terrace, British Columbia, a community in Canada
Terrace Club, a Princeton University eating club
Terrace (board game), an abstract strategy game

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