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superfices

superfices is the alternative form of superficies.

Meaning of superficies

Noun

superficies (plural superficies)

  1. The area of a two-dimensional surface.
  2. The visible, external surface of a body.
    • The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy of Lagado. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London...
  3. The surface (of something immaterial, especially of the mind or soul).
    • 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.1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Rural Life in England
  4. A building intimately associated with the land on which it is built.

Questions about superfices

What is superfices the alternative form of?
Superfices is the alternative form of superficies.

Words near superfices in the dictionary

  1. superfeted
  2. superfetes
  3. superfeting
  4. superfibronectin
  5. superfice
  6. superfices
  7. superficial
  8. superficial fascia
  9. superficial fasciae
  10. superficial temporal arteries
  11. superficial temporal artery

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