Terrace vs Atrium - What's the difference?
terrace | atrium |
A platform that extends outwards from a building.
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A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
(in the plural, chiefly, British) The standing area at a football ground.
(chiefly, Indian English) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
To provide something with a terrace.
To form something into a terrace.
(architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
(architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
(anatomy) Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.
* {{quote-book, 1965, Janet Kircher Warter, Palynology of a Lignite of Lower Eocene (Wilcox) Age from Kemper County
, passage=Nexine 0.5? thick, separating from the sexine about 5? from the pore and forming a deep, well-defined atrium .}}
As a proper noun terrace
is a city in british columbia, canada.As a noun atrium is
atrium (a square hall lit from above).terrace
English
(wikipedia terrace) {, style="float: right; clear:right;" , , , }Noun
(en noun)- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace , explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
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