Surface (disambiguation)

A surface, as the term is most generally used, is the outermost or uppermost layer of a physical object or space.

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

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

See also

• Surfacing (disambiguation)