Pavement(s) or paving may refer to:
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Road surface
A road surface (British English) or pavement (North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway. In the past, gravel road surfaces, macadam, ...
, the durable surfacing of roads and walkways
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Sidewalk
A sidewalk (North American English),
pavement (British English, South African English), or footpath (Hiberno-English, Irish English, Indian English, Australian English, New Zealand English) is a path along the side of a road. Usually constr ...
, a walkway along the side of a road, called a pavement in British English
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Asphalt concrete
Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and Tarmacadam, tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface road surface, roads ...
, a common form of road surface
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Cool pavement
Cool pavement is defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as pavement that implements technologies contributing to heat island effect reduction efforts. Most cool pavements either increase pavement albedo to reflect shortwave ra ...
, pavement that delivers higher solar reflectance than conventional dark pavement
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Crazy paving
Crazy paving is a means of Pavement (material), hard-surfacing used outdoors, most frequently in gardens. Paving stone (flooring), Paving stones of irregular size and shape are laid in a haphazard manner sometimes with Mortar (masonry), mortar f ...
, a means of hard-surfacing used outdoors
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Nicolson pavement, a road surface material consisting of wooden blocks
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Pavers (flooring)
A paver is a paving stone, sett, tile, brick or brick-like piece of concrete commonly used as exterior flooring. They are generally placed on top of a foundation which is made of layers of compacted stone and sand. The pavers are placed in the ...
, an outdoor floor done in blocks
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Permeable paving
Permeable paving surfaces are made of either a porous material that enables stormwater to flow through it or nonporous blocks spaced so that water can flow between the gaps. Permeable paving can also include a variety of surfacing techniques fo ...
, paving that enables stormwater to flow through it or between gaps
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Portuguese pavement
Portuguese pavement, known in Portuguese as or simply (or in Brazil), is a traditional-style pavement used for many pedestrian areas in Portugal. It consists of small pieces of stone arranged in a pattern or image, like a mosaic. It can also ...
, the traditional paving used in most pedestrian areas in Portugal
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Resin-bound paving, a mixture of aggregate stones and resin used to pave footpaths, driveways, etc.
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Tactile paving, textured ground surface indicators to assist vision-impaired pedestrians
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Whitetopping, the covering of an existing asphalt pavement with a layer of Portland cement concrete
Geology
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Desert pavement
A desert pavement, also called reg (in western Sahara), serir (in eastern Sahara), gibber (in Australia), or saï (in central Asia) is a desert surface covered with closely packed, interlocking angular or rounded rock fragments of pebble and ...
, a desert ground surface covered with closely packed rock fragments
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Glacial striation
Glacial striations or striae are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion. These scratches and gouges were first recognized as the result of a moving glacier in the late 18th century when Swiss alpinists first associated them ...
or glacial pavement, a rock surface scoured and polished by glacial action
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Limestone pavement
A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial Sidewalk, pavement. The term is mainly used in the UK and Ireland, where many of these landforms have devel ...
, a naturally occurring landform that resembles an artificial pavement
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Tessellated pavement, a rare sedimentary rock formation that occurs on some ocean shores
Geography
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Pavement (York)
Pavement is a street in the city centre of York, in England.
History
The area occupied by Pavement was outside the Roman city walls, but fairly central within the Mediaeval walls of York. During the Anglo-Saxon and Viking eras, it was at the ...
, a street in York, England
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Finsbury Pavement, a street in London, England
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High Pavement, a street in Nottingham, England
* Low Pavement, a street in Nottingham, England; see
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Arts and entertainment
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Pavement (band)
Pavement is an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California, in 1989. For most of their career, the group consisted of Stephen Malkmus (vocals and guitar), Scott Kannberg (guitar and vocals), Mark Ibold (bass), Steve West (dr ...
, an indie rock band from Stockton, California, US
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''Pavements'' (film), a 2024 film about the band
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''Pavement'' (magazine), a youth culture magazine
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"Pavement" (''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''), an episode of the American animated TV series ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''
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Pave (disambiguation)
PAVE is a United States Air Force program identifier relating to electronic systems. Prior to 1979, Pave was said to be a Code word (communication), code word for the Air Force unit responsible for the project. ''Pave'' was used as an inconseque ...
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Pavement engineering
Pavement engineering is a branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to design and maintain flexible (asphalt) and rigid (concrete) pavements. This includes streets and highways and involves knowledge of soils, hydraulics, and mat ...
, branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to design and maintain flexible (asphalt) and rigid (concrete) pavements
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