Word Meanings - EXTERIORITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Surface; superficies; externality.

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• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• SURFACE TENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
• EXTERNALITY
  State of being external; exteriority;
• SURFACE
  A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface. (more info) 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face;
• SUPERFICIES
  1. The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face of a thing. 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,
• SURFACER
  A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
• DOUBLE-SURFACED
  Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.
• ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
  A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• ADVANCING SURFACE
  The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.
• SINGLE-SURFACED
  Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.