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

Surface or surfaces may also refer to:

Mathematics

• Surface (mathematics), a generalization of a plane which needs not be flat
• Surface (differential geometry), a differentiable two-dimensional manifold
• Surface (topology), a two-dimensional manifold
• Algebraic surface, an algebraic variety of dimension two
• Coordinate surfaces
• Fractal surface, generated using a stochastic algorithm
• Polyhedral surface
• Surface area
• Surface integral

Arts and entertainment

• Surface (band), an American R&B and pop trio
  • Surface (Surface album), 1986
• Surfaces (band), American musical duo
• Surface (Circle album), 1998
• "Surface" (Aero Chord song), 2014
• Surface (2005 TV series), an American science fiction show, 2005–2006
• Surface (2022 TV series), an American psychological thriller miniseries that began streaming in 2022
• The Surface, an American film, 2014
• "Surface", a song by Your Memorial from the 2010 album Atonement
• The Surface (album), 2024, the fifth album by Beartooth

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 (Université de Montréal journal), published from 1991 to 1999
• Surfaces (MDPI journal), published from 2018 onwards
• Surface Science (journal)

See also

• Surfacing (disambiguation)

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