surface element

"People who rely on identity politics are asking you to make a judgment based on a shallow surface element of who we are," said Bruce, pointing to recent examples of Democrats evoking gender in their campaign messages.

Now take the product ωdS for the surface element.

The demagogic force of the term is derived from the undeniable existence of a surface element of society, which has been and is still apt to conduct itself in such a manner as to subject itself justly to the charge of frivolity and extravagance.

Considering a surface element through the origin, we may choose our axes so that, for this element, z3 = z4 = ... = zn = 0.

This surface element, we must remember, is not income and resource, but an item of needful, and, so far as needful, graceful and economical expenditure.