Surface (disambiguation)
A surface, as the term is most generally used, is the outermost or uppermost layer of a physical object or space.
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Surface may also refer to:
- Surface (mathematics), a generalization of a plane which needs not be flat
- Surface (topology), a two-dimensional manifold
- Surface (differential geometry), a differentiable two-dimensional manifold
- Algebraic surface, an algebraic variety of dimension two
- Polyhedral surface
- Fractal surface, generated using a stochastic algorithm
- Surface area
- Surface integral
- Coordinate surfaces
Arts and entertainment
- Surface (magazine), an American design magazine
- Surface (TV series), an American science fiction show
- Surface (band), an American R&B and pop trio
- Surface (Surface album), 1986
- Surface (Circle album), 1998
- "Surface" (Aero Chord song), 2014
- The Surface, a 2014 American film
Physical sciences
- Surface finishing, a range of industrial processes that alter the surface of a manufactured item to achieve a certain property
- Surface science, the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases
- Surface wave, a mechanical wave, in physics
- Interface (matter), common boundary among two different phases of matter
- Planetary surface
- Surface of the Earth
- Sea surface
- Surface of the Earth
Transportation
- Surface mail, transportation of mail that travel on land and sea but not air
- Surface transport, transportation of goods and people on land and sea
People
- Harvey A. Surface (1867–1941), American zoologist and Pennsylvania legislator
- Mary Hall Surface (born 1958), American playwright and theater director
Technology
- Microsoft Surface, the brand for a line of computers and related accessories by Microsoft
- Microsoft PixelSense (formerly known as Surface), a commercial computing platform
- Computer representation of surfaces, a way of representing objects, in technical applications of 3D computer graphics
- Deep structure and surface structure, concepts in Chomskyan linguistics
Publications
- Surface (magazine), an American architecture magazine since 1993
- Surfaces (journal), an English/French electronic journal by the Université de Montréal, Canada, between 1991 and 2001
- Surface Science (journal), a scientific journal on surfaces
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See also
- Surfacing (disambiguation)
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