Flat

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Contents 1 Places 2 Arts 3 Footwear 4 Mathematics and geometry 5 Transportation 6 Other uses 7 See also

Flat, or flatness, describes an object or condition that is very smooth or level.

Flat or flats may also refer to:

[edit] Places

• Flat, a residential apartment
• Flat, Alaska, United States
• Flat, Missouri, United States
• Flat, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune in région Auvergne, France
• Flat, Texas, United States
• Flat Brook, tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey
• Flat Island, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
• Flat River (North Carolina), a river in Southern Person County, North Carolina
• Flats, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA
• "The Flat", local name for South Dunedin, New Zealand
• The Flats, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

[edit] Arts

• Flat (music), a symbol (♭) which denotes a lower pitch
• Flats (theatre), flat pieces of theatrical scenery

[edit] Footwear

• Flats, low-heeled women's shoes
• Racing flats, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race

[edit] 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 morphism in algebraic geometry

[edit] Transportation

• Flat, a deflated pneumatic tire
• Flat car, an open container on wheels designed to carry heavy loads
• Flat spot, a fault in the shape of a railroad wheel

[edit] Other uses

• Flat, 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
• Flats or flat butterflies, certain skipper butterfly genera in subfamily Pyrginae:
  • Celaenorrhinus of tribe Celaenorrhini;
  • Calleagris (scarce flats),
  • Eagris, and
  • Tagiades (water flats, snow flats) of tribe Tagiadini
• Flats (USPS), an oversized letter
• Optical flat, an extremely flat piece of glass

[edit] See also

• Flattening
• Mudflat
• Planar
• All pages beginning with "Flat"

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