superficies
the surface, outer face, or outside of a thing.
the outward appearance, especially as distinguished from the inner nature.
Origin of superficies
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How to use superficies in a sentence
They therefore greatly exceed in superficies the mass of the European lands, estimated at about 490,000 square leagues.
The Desert World | Arthur ManginThat as is superficies non orbis Terr, so it was not a known personification at the time of Homer.
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 | W. E. GladstoneSimultaneous order is like a work cohering from the centre to the superficies, 314.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love | Emanuel SwedenborgWhen we came upon its banks, we found them composed of a red loam with sandy superficies.
Only in one place did the sandy superficies upon the plain indicate that it was there subject to flood.
British Dictionary definitions for superficies
/ (ˌsuːpəˈfɪʃiːz) /
a surface or outer face
the outward form of a thing
Origin of superficies
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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