Flat
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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
- A self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building, referred to in America as an "apartment", and in the rest of the world as a flat. A 'flat' can sometimes refer to any rented accommodation, whether house, part-house or apartment, especially when it is inhabited by a group of young people rather than a family.
- 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 heel 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] Music
- Flat (music), a type of musical note.
[edit] American geography
- Ash Flat, Arkansas, United States
- Burns Flat, Oklahoma, United States
- Douglas Flat, California, United States
- Flat Brook, tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey
- Flat River (North Carolina), river in Southern Person County, North Carolina
- Flat Rock, Michigan, United States
- Flat Top, the 20th-highest peak in Georgia
- Flat, Alaska, United States
- Groveland-Big Oak Flat, California, United States
- Portuguese Flat, California, United States
- The Flats, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Tortilla Flat, Arizona, United States
[edit] Australian geography
[edit] Other geography
- Alkali flat, synonym for playa, the shore of, or remnant of, an endorheic lake
- Browns Flat, New Brunswick, Canada
- Flat, Puy-de-Dôme, France
- Flat Holm, Wales, United Kingdom
- Flat Island, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
- Millers Flat, New Zealand
[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
[edit] See also
- Flat file
- Flat Rock, North Carolina
- Flat screen
- Flat-clawed
- Flat-Coated
- Flat-headed
- Flat-tailed
- Flatness
- Mudflat
- Planar
- Planer
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