Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area of land; ground.
- noun A particular geographic area; a region.
- noun The surface features of an area of land; topography.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A part of the earth's surface limited in extent; a region, district, or tract of land, either looked at in a general way or considered with reference to its fitness or use for some special purpose, as for a building-place or a battle-field: a term little used in English except in translating from the French, and then with the same meaning which it has in the original.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A
single ,distinctive rock formation ; anarea having apreponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks. - noun An area of land or the particular features of it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lots of hunting areas have roads closed to vehicles, the terrain is all flat so it makes it alot easier.
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Lots of hunting areas have roads closed to vehicles, the terrain is all flat so it makes it alot easier.
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As I live in an area in years of drought and the terrain is also in the mountains and very arid, I wondered what your experience in SMA was pertaining to this.
Water supply 2005
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Not unlike many other coastal towns on the Southern Pacific, it offers much to those who live there: the sea yields an abundance of fish, the terrain is the beginning of the fertile, humid jungle, and bountiful crops like papaya and bananas grow in the rich, dark loam.
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Not unlike many other coastal towns on the Southern Pacific, it offers much to those who live there: the sea yields an abundance of fish, the terrain is the beginning of the fertile, humid jungle, and bountiful crops like papaya and bananas grow in the rich, dark loam.
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They found what they called a terrain map that had positions of U.S. troops and Iraqi forces basically arrayed out like in a sandbox.
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While I generally feel confident about my newfound path, the uncertain terrain can feel, at times, incredibly frightening.
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While I generally feel confident about my newfound path, the uncertain terrain can feel, at times, incredibly frightening.
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The terrain is very much the terrain of my own life -- New England and New York, with Calcutta always hovering in the background.
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Building a four-lane highway through that rugged terrain is no small task, and it will take a while longer to complete.
kmassie commented on the word terrain
From the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. pg.139
"I can't stop trying to imagine exactly what terrain i'll be thrown into."
November 29, 2010