Flat (disambiguation)

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Flat is a musical symbol that lowers the pitch of a note by a half step.

Flat or flats may refer to:

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[edit] Anatomy

  • Flat bone, bone composed of two thin layers of compact tissue enclosing between them a variable quantity of cancellous tissue
  • Flat feet, the condition in humans in which arch of the foot collapses

[edit] Architecture

  • Flat, self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building
  • Flat roof, type of covering of a building

[edit] Economics

  • Flat Fee, pricing structure that charges a single fixed fee for a service
  • Flat tax, taxation of incomes

[edit] Fashion

  • Flat cap, rounded soft men's cap with a small brim in front and a somewhat stiff peak in the back
  • Flats, women's shoes with almost no heal at all
  • Racing flats, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race

[edit] Fiction

  • Flat Eric, low-tech, yellow puppet character from Levi's commercials for Sta-Prest One Crease Denim Clothing
  • Flat Stanley, title character of a 1964 children's book by Jeff Brown

[edit] Mathematics

  • Flat, space or space-time without curvature
  • Flat map, homomorphism f from a ring R to a ring S such that S becomes a flat R-module when the action of R on S is given by f
  • Flat module, R-module M such that taking the tensor product over R with M preserves exact sequences in abstract algebra
  • Flat morphism, morphism such that the induced map on every stalk is a flat map of rings in mathematics

[edit] Mechanics

  • Flat engine, internal combustion engine with its pistons parallel to the ground
  • Flat rated, constrained to a lower Horsepower rating
  • Flat tire, condition of a pneumatic tire which must be fixed before the car can be driven safely
  • Flat-4, four cylinder internal combustion engine where the cylinders are arranged in a flat configuration
  • Flat-6, 6 cylinder configuration of a flat engine
  • Flat-8, internal combustion engine in flat configuration
  • Flat-16, internal combustion engine in flat configuration
  • Flat-twin, two cylinder internal combustion engine with the cylinders arranged in a flat configuration

[edit] American geography

[edit] Australian geography

[edit] Other geography

[edit] Other

  • Crane Flat, campground in Yosemite National Park located 17 miles northwest of Yosemite Valley
  • Flat, the primary form of wordplay before crosswords came along
  • Flat Earth, idea that the inhabited surface of Earth is flat
  • Flat memory model, approach to organizing memory address space in computer programming
  • Flat organization, organizational structure with few or no levels of intervening management between staff and managers
  • Flat racing, form of horse racing which is run over a predetermined distance and in which the horses are not required to jump over obstacles
  • Flat weighting, noise-measuring set
  • Flat White, coffee beverage served in Australia and New Zealand
  • Flats (theatre), flat pieces of theatrical scenery
  • Flats (USPS), type of package
  • Mersey Flat, two masted, doubled-ended barge with rounded bilges
  • Tortilla Flat, early Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California

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