Surfacing: alternatives and connections

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upo…

An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.

Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fractu…

Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inc…

To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the…

the ratio of the weight of an object being moved along a surface and the force that maintains contact between the object and the surfa…

Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surfac…

A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a…

The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membr…

A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grai…

Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, wh…

The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, includin…

Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any i…

The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of pro…

Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at…

The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface int…

Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.

The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the…