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  2. Impervious surface - Wikipedia

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    Impervious surface percentage in various cities. The percentage imperviousness, commonly referred to as PIMP in calculations, is an important factor when considering drainage of water. It is calculated by measuring the percentage of a catchment area which is made up of impervious surfaces such as roads, roofs and other paved surfaces.

  3. Surface area - Wikipedia

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    A sphere of radius r has surface area 4πr 2.. The surface area (symbol A) of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies. [1] The mathematical definition of surface area in the presence of curved surfaces is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of one-dimensional curves, or of the surface area for polyhedra (i.e., objects with ...

  4. Signed area - Wikipedia

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    The blue area above the x-axis may be specified as positive area, while the yellow area below the x-axis is the negative area. The integral of a real function can be imagined as the signed area between the x {\displaystyle x} -axis and the curve y = f ( x ) {\displaystyle y=f(x)} over an interval [ a , b ].

  5. Surface (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a surface is a mathematical model of the common concept of a surface. It is a generalization of a plane, but, unlike a plane, it may be curved; this is analogous to a curve generalizing a straight line. There are several more precise definitions, depending on the context and the mathematical tools that are used for the study.

  6. Stormwater fee - Wikipedia

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    A stormwater fee is a charge imposed on real estate owners for pollution in stormwater drainage from impervious surface runoff.. This system imposes a tax that is proportional to the total impervious area on a particular property, including concrete or asphalt driveways and roofs, that do not allow rain to infiltrate.

  7. Minimal surface - Wikipedia

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    Variational definition: A surface is minimal if and only if it is a critical point of the area functional for all compactly supported variations. This definition makes minimal surfaces a 2-dimensional analogue to geodesics , which are analogously defined as critical points of the length functional.

  8. Differential geometry of surfaces - Wikipedia

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    For any surface embedded in Euclidean space of dimension 3 or higher, it is possible to measure the length of a curve on the surface, the angle between two curves and the area of a region on the surface. This structure is encoded infinitesimally in a Riemannian metric on the surface through line elements and area elements.

  9. n-sphere - Wikipedia

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    For any natural number ⁠ ⁠, an ⁠ ⁠-sphere of radius ⁠ ⁠ is defined as the set of points in ⁠ (+) ⁠-dimensional Euclidean space that are at distance ⁠ ⁠ from some fixed point ⁠ ⁠, where ⁠ ⁠ may be any positive real number and where ⁠ ⁠ may be any point in ⁠ (+) ⁠-dimensional space.