Is there a technical name for a several mile stretch of flight before landing? A friend of mine lives exactly 5 miles from a small but busy airport that accepts commercial traffic (small commercial jets). Yesterday I noticed that many airplanes were flying low right over his house on the approach to the airport. They seemed to be following the same route. The main runway points in the direction of this house. Is there a technical name for the several mile 'air road' that leads to the airport runway? 
Edit: Airport is Teterboro Airport (TEB).
The best term to describe it would be the 'final approach segment', which is defined by ICAO as:


  This is the segment in which alignment and descent for landing are made. Final approach may be made to a runway for a straight-in landing, or to an aerodrome for a visual manoeuvre. 


The FAA defines the same as:


  The FAS begins at the PFAF and ends at the landing threshold point (LTP).  The FAS is typically aligned with the runway centerline extended. The segment OEA is divided into the FAS OCS and the visual segment obstacle identification surface (OIS). 


Note: Both Eurocontrol (which refers to the ICAO document) and Jeppesen define it only for instrument approaches.