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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUPERFI'CIES, n. [L. from super, upon, and facies, face.] The surface; the exterior part of a thing. A superficies consists of length and breadth; as the superficies of a plate or of a sphere. Superficies is rectilinear, curvilinear, plane, convex or concave.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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
2: outer surface of an area or a body

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural superficies) Etymology: Latin, surface, from super- + facies face, aspect — more at face Date: 1530 1. a surface of a body or a region of space 2. the external aspects or appearance of a thing

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. same) Geom. a surface. Etymology: L (as SUPER-, facies face)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Surface, exterior, outside.