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superficies

UK/ˌsuː.pəˈfɪʃ.i.iːz/US/ˌsu.pɚˈfɪˌʃiz/

superficies noun: the area of a two-dimensional surface.

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.

superficies meaning in Tamil

superficies in Tamil

புறப்பரப்பு

Forms of superficies

pluralsuperficies

Origin of superficies

Borrowing from Latin superficiēs (“top, surface”), from super- (“above, over”) + faciēs (“form, configuration, shape”). Doublet of surface.

Questions about superficies

What does superficies mean?
Superficies means the area of a two-dimensional surface.
What is superficies in Tamil?
Superficies in Tamil is புறப்பரப்பு. See Superficies meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is superficies?
Superficies is a noun.
How do you pronounce superficies?
Superficies is pronounced /ˌsuː.pəˈfɪʃ.i.iːz/ (UK).
What is the plural of superficies?
The plural of superficies is superficies.

Words near superficies in the dictionary

  1. superficially
  2. superficialness
  3. superficials
  4. superficiaries
  5. superficiary
  6. superficies
  7. superfield
  8. superfields
  9. superfight
  10. superfights
  11. superfilament

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: superficies (page history and authors); superficies (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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