Definition of "superficies"

superficies

/ˌsuː.pəˈfɪʃ.i.iːz/

noun
plural superficies
1. (geometry) A two-dimensional magnitude that has length and breadth; especially such a surface that forms the boundary of a solid.
  1. The area of a two-dimensional surface.
  2. The visible, external surface of a body.
    Quotations
    The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.
    1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy of Lagado. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 72
2. The surface (of something immaterial, especially of the mind or soul).
  Quotations
  An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting. … They present but the cold superficies of character—its rich and genial qualities have no time to be warmed into a flow.
  1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Rural Life in England
3. (law) A building intimately associated with the land on which it is built.