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
- Flat, Alaska, United States
- Flat, Kentucky, United States
- Flat, Missouri, United States
- Flat, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune in the French region of Auvergne
- Flat, Texas, United States
- Flat Brook, a tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
- Flat Island (disambiguation) or Flat Islands (disambiguation), several islands
- Flat River (North Carolina), a river in southern Person County, North Carolina, United States
- Flats, Nebraska, United States
- Flats, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, United States
- Forest Lake Area Trail System
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:
- Called it (scarce flats),
- Celaenorrhinus of tribe Celaenorrhini;
- Eagris, and
- Tagiades (water flats, snow flats), of tribe Tagiadini
- 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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