Flat

Flat commonly refers to:

• Flatness, which describes an object or condition that is very smooth or level.

Flat or flats may also refer to:

Geography

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, 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

Landforms

• Flat (landform), relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa)
• Mudflat, coastal wetlands formed by mud
• Salt flat (disambiguation)

Architecture

• Flat (housing), an apartment in the United Kingdom, Australia and other Commonwealth countries
• Flatmate arrangement, in New Zealand, a residence shared among unrelated adults or an apartment

Art, entertainment, and media

• Flat (music), a symbol (♭) which denotes a lower pitch
• Flat (soldier), a two-dimensional toy soldier made of tin or plastic
• Flats (band), an English band
• Flats (comics), the first stage in the comic coloring process
• Flats (theatre), flat pieces of theatrical scenery
• Flat! (2010), an Indian film

Footwear

• Flats, footwear which is not high-heeled
• Racing flats, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race
• 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
• Ballet flats, derived from ballet shoes, for casual wear as well as dancing

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 abstract algebra
• 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 spot, a fault in the shape of a railroad wheel
• Flat wagon, a railway goods wagon with a flat deck for transporting e.g. vehicles
• Flatboat

Other uses

• First Lady Astronaut Trainees or FLATs, American women who underwent NASA Project Mercury physiological screening tests
• Flat (football), the area of the gridiron football field
• Flats (USPS), an oversized letter
• Optical flat, an extremely flat piece of glass
• 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

See also

• All pages beginning with "Flat"
• All pages with a title containing Flat
• The Flat (disambiguation), including "The Flats"
• Flatten (disambiguation)
• Flattening
• Mudflat
• Planar (disambiguation)