superficies : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: superficies	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for superficies
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
superficies n the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial appearance; "the audience was held by the substance of the play rather than by the superficies of the production"-R.W.Speaight outer surface of an area or a body
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Superficies \Su`per*fi"cies\, n. [L., fr. super above, over + facies make, figure, shape. See {Surface}.] 1. The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face of a thing. 2. (Civil Law) (a) Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of a building, so closely connected by art or nature as to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc. (b) A real right consisting of a grant by a landed proprietor of a piece of ground, bearing a strong resemblance to the long building leases granted by landholders in England, in consideration of a rent, and under reservation of the ownership of the soil. --Bouvier. Wharton.