Flat

Flat or flats may refer to:

Architecture

  • Flat (housing), an apartment in the United Kingdom, Australia and other Commonwealth countries
  • Flatmate arrangement, in Australia and New Zealand, whereby unrelated adults sharing a dwelling

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Flat (music), a symbol () which denotes a lower pitch
  • Flat (soldier), a two-dimensional toy soldier made of tin or plastic
  • Flat, a leading type of wordplay predating the invention of crosswords, as identified by the National Puzzlers' League
  • Flat! (2010), an Indian film
  • Flats (band), an English band
  • Flats (comics), the first stage in the comic coloring process
  • Flats (theatre), flat pieces of theatrical scenery

Footwear

  • Flats, footwear which is not high-heeled
  • Ballet flats, derived from ballet shoes, for casual wear as well as dancing
  • Ballet shoes (also known as ballet slippers), are often referred to as "flats" or "flat shoes", in contrast to the pointe shoes more advanced female dancers wear
  • Racing flats, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race

Geography

Landforms

  • Flat (landform), relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa)
  • Mudflat, coastal wetlands formed by mud
  • Salt flat (disambiguation)

Places

Mathematics and geometry

  • Flat (geometry), the generalization of lines and planes in an n-dimensional Euclidean space
  • Flat (matroids), a further generalization of flats from linear algebra to the context of matroids
  • Flat module in ring theory
  • Flat morphism in algebraic geometry
  • Flat sign, for its use in mathematics, see musical isomorphism - mapping vectors to covectors

Transportation

  • Flat, a deflated pneumatic tire
  • Flat car, an open container on wheels designed to carry heavy loads
    • Flat wagon, a railway goods wagon with a flat deck for transporting e.g. vehicles
  • Flat spot, a fault in the shape of a railroad wheel
  • Flatboat
  • Flatbed trolley

Other uses

  • Flat (football), the area of the gridiron football field
  • Flat butterflies or flats, certain skipper butterfly genera in subfamily Pyrginae:
  • Flat-chested, the opposite of buxom
  • Flat-chested kitten syndrome
  • Flats (USPS), an oversized letter
  • FLATS or First Lady Astronaut Trainees, American women who underwent NASA Project Mercury physiological screening tests
  • Shallow water areas in the context of boating, fishing or marine biology, often used in plural form.
  • Optical flat, an extremely flat piece of glass
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See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Flat
  • All pages with titles containing Flat
  • The Flat (disambiguation), including "The Flats"
  • Flatten (disambiguation)
  • Flattening
  • Planar (disambiguation)
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