Flat or flats may refer to:
Architecture
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Flat (housing)
Flat or flats may refer to:
Architecture
* Flat (housing), an apartment in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and other Commonwealth countries
Arts and entertainment
* Flat (music), a symbol () which denotes a lower pitch
* Flat (soldier), ...
, an apartment in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and other Commonwealth countries
Arts and entertainment
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Flat (music)
In music, flat (Italian bemolle for "soft B") means "lower in pitch". Flat is the opposite of sharp, which is a raising of pitch. In musical notation, flat means "lower in pitch by one semitone (half step)", notated using the symbol which is deri ...
, a symbol () which denotes a lower pitch
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Flat (soldier)
Tin soldiers are miniature figures of toy soldiers that are very popular in the world of collecting. They can be bought finished or in a raw state to be hand-painted. They are generally made of pewter, tin, lead, other metals or plastic. Ofte ...
, a two-dimensional toy soldier made of tin or plastic
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Flat (theatre)
A flat (short for scenery flat) or coulisse is a flat piece of theatrical scenery which is painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background.
Flats can be soft covered (covered with cloth such as musli ...
, a flat piece of theatrical scenery
* Flat, a leading type of wordplay, as identified by the
National Puzzlers' League The National Puzzlers' League (NPL) is a nonprofit organization focused on puzzle, puzzling, primarily in the realm of word play and word games. Founded in 1883, it is the oldest puzzlers' organization in the world. It originally hosted semiannual c ...
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Flat!
''A Flat'' is a Hindi thriller film, directed by Hemant Madhukar and produced by Anjum Rizvi.The film was released on 12 November 2010 under the Anjum Rizvi Film Company and Y.T Entertainment Ltd. banners.
Plot
The story follows Rahul (Jimmy She ...
'' (2010), an Indian film
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Flats (band)
Flats are a four-piece punk/sludge metal band from East London (with roots in both Palestine and South Wales also). They have their own imprint, Sweat Shop Records, with their last record released in conjunction with Derrick Birkett's One Littl ...
, an English band
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Flats (comics), the first stage in the comic coloring process
Footwear
* Flats, footwear which is not
high-heeled
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Ballet flat
Ballet flats are women's shoes for everyday wear which are similar to/inspired by a women's ballet shoes, with a very thin heel or the appearance of no heel at all. The style sometimes features a ribbon-like binding around the low tops of the slip ...
s, derived from ballet shoes, for casual wear as well as dancing
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Ballet shoe
A ballet shoe, or ballet slipper, is a lightweight shoe designed specifically for ballet dancing. It may be made from soft leather, canvas, or satin, and has flexible, thin full or split soles. Traditionally, women wear pink shoes and men wear wh ...
s (also known as ballet slippers), often referred to as "flats" or "flat shoes"
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Racing flat Racing flats, or simply flats, are lightweight athletic shoes designed for "long distance" track and field, cross country, and most often, road races. They differ from normal training shoes mainly by the lack of a substantial heel to toe drop.
Fl ...
s, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race
Geography
Landforms
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Flat (landform)
A flat is a relatively level surface of land within a region of greater relief, such as hills or mountains, usually used in the plural. The term is often used to name places with such features, for example, Yucca Flat or Henninger Flats.
''Flat' ...
, a relatively level area within a region of greater relief
Bodies of water
* Flat, a shallow water area in the context of
boating
Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether Motorboat, powerboats, Sailing, sailboats, or man-powered vessels (such as rowing and paddle boats), focused on the travel itself, as well as sp ...
,
fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques inclu ...
or
marine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies s ...
, often used in plural form
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Brewster Flats
Brewster may refer to:
People
*Brewster (surname)
*Brewster Kahle (born 1960), American computer technologist
*Brewster H. Shaw (born 1945), American astronaut
Places
*Brewster Park (Enniskillen), Northern Ireland
* Brewster (crater), The Moon
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, an area of Cape Cod Bay off the shore of Massachusetts, U.S.
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Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm
The Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm is a wind farm located off the coast of Kent, England on a large, flat and shallow plateau just outside the main Thames shipping lanes. The wind farm is operated by Vattenfall.
Location
The distance from the ...
, off the coast of Kent, England
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Rhyl Flats
Rhyl Flats Offshore Wind Farm is a 25 turbine wind farm approximately 8 km north east of Llandudno in North Wales. It is Wales' second offshore wind farm and the third offshore wind farm to be built within Liverpool Bay. It has a maximum ra ...
, a wind farm off the coast of North Wales
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Flat coast
At a flat coast or flat shoreline, the land descends gradually into the sea. Flat coasts can be formed either as a result of the sea advancing into gently-sloping terrain or through the abrasion of loose rock. They may be basically divided into t ...
, a shoreline where the land descends gradually into the sea
Places
United States
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Flat, Alaska
Flat is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the CDP was 0, down from 4 residents in 2000. Its post office closed in January 2004.
History
Prospectors J ...
, a census-designated place
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Flat, Kentucky
Flat is an unincorporated community in Wolfe County, Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Ill ...
, an unincorporated community
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Flat, Missouri Flat is an unincorporated community in southern Phelps County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately sixteen miles southwest of Rolla. The community is at the intersection of Missouri routes M and T. Edgar Springs lies about four ...
, an unincorporated community
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Flat, Texas
Flat is a small unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood metropolitan statistical area.
History
The area was originally titled "Mesquite Flat" when the town appli ...
, an unincorporated community
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Flat Brook
Flat Brook, also spelled as Flatbrook, is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey in the United Sta ...
, a tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey
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Flats, Nebraska
Flats is an extinct town in McPherson County, Nebraska, United States. The GNIS
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features througho ...
, United States
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Flats, West Virginia
Flats is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers cla ...
, an unincorporated community
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Forest Lake Area Trail System
The ultimate goal of the Forest Lake Area Trail System (FLATS) is to develop a trail system connecting Kirksville and Thousand Hills State Park. The first phase of the trail is a ten-foot wide concrete trail between the Petroglyph Site and Marina i ...
, Missouri
Other
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Flat, Puy-de-Dôme
Flat is a former commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Aulhat-Flat.Flat Island (disambiguation)
Flat Island may refer to:
* Flat Island (Hong Kong)
* Flat Island (Spratly) in the South China Sea
* Flat Island (Falkland Islands) in the south Atlantic Ocean
* Flat Island Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Andaman Islands
* Flat Island, a former separa ...
, in various places
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Flat Islands (disambiguation) Flat Islands may refer to:
* Flat Islands (Antarctica)
* Flat Islands, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
* Flat Islands, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
See also
* Flat Island (disambiguation)
* Flat Isles
The Northumberlan ...
, in Canada and Antarctica
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Flat River (disambiguation) Flat River may refer to:
Rivers
* Flat River (Northwest Territories), a tributary of the South Nahanni River
* Flat River (Louisiana)
* Flat River (Missouri), a tributary of the Big River
* Flat River (Michigan)
* Flat River (North Carolina)
...
, in the United States and Canada
Mathematics and geometry
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Flatness (mathematics)
In mathematics, the flatness (symbol: ⏥) of a surface is the degree to which it approximates a mathematical plane. The term is often generalized for higher-dimensional manifolds to describe the degree to which they approximate the Euclidean space ...
, of a surface
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Flat (geometry)
In geometry, a flat or Euclidean subspace is a subset of a Euclidean space that is itself a Euclidean space (of lower dimension). The flats in two-dimensional space are points and lines, and the flats in three-dimensional space are points, lin ...
, the generalization of lines and planes in an ''n''-dimensional Euclidean space
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Flat (matroids)
In combinatorics, a branch of mathematics, a matroid is a structure that abstracts and generalizes the notion of linear independence in vector spaces. There are many equivalent ways to define a matroid axiomatically, the most significant being ...
, a further generalization of flats from linear algebra to the context of matroids
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Flat module
In algebra, a flat module over a ring ''R'' is an ''R''-module ''M'' such that taking the tensor product over ''R'' with ''M'' preserves exact sequences. A module is faithfully flat if taking the tensor product with a sequence produces an exact seq ...
in ring theory
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Flat morphism
In mathematics, in particular in the theory of schemes in algebraic geometry, a flat morphism ''f'' from a scheme ''X'' to a scheme ''Y'' is a morphism such that the induced map on every stalk is a flat map of rings, i.e.,
:f_P\colon \mathcal_ \t ...
in algebraic geometry
* Flat sign, for its use in mathematics; see
musical isomorphism
In mathematics—more specifically, in differential geometry—the musical isomorphism (or canonical isomorphism) is an isomorphism between the tangent bundle \mathrmM and the cotangent bundle \mathrm^* M of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold induced by ...
, mapping vectors to covectors
People
Nickname
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Earl "Flat" Chase (1910–1954), Canadian baseball player
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Flat Walsh
James Patrick "Flat" Walsh (March 23, 1897 — December 2, 1959) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Maroons and New York Americans between 1927 and 1933. Much of his ca ...
(1897–1959), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
Fictional characters
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Flat Eric
Flat Eric is a puppet character, created by Mr. Oizo, Quentin Dupieux (better known under his stage name Mr. Oizo), from Levi's Television advertisement, commercials for Sta-Prest One Crease Denim Clothing, built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. His ...
, a character in some Levi's commercials
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Flat Stanley
''Flat Stanley'' is an American children's book series written by author Jeff Brown (January 1, 1926 – December 3, 2003). The idea for the book began as a bedtime story for Brown’s sons, which Brown turned into the first Flat Stanley book. Th ...
'', namesake of an American children's book series
Groups
* FLATS or
First Lady Astronaut Trainees
The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who took part in a privately funded program run by William Randolph Lovelace II aiming to test and screen women for spaceflight. The participants—First Lady Astronaut Trainees (or FLATs) as Jerrie ...
, American women who underwent NASA Project Mercury physiological screening tests
Other uses
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Flat (gridiron football)
The flat in gridiron football is the area of the field extending ten yards into the defensive backfield from the line of scrimmage and extending outside the hash marks to the out-of-bounds lines (a distance of about 15 yards).
Offenses will typi ...
, the area of the gridiron football field
* Flat butterflies or flats, certain skipper butterfly genera in subfamily
Pyrginae:
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Calleagris
''Calleagris'' is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
*'' Calleagris hollandi'' (Butler, 1897)
*'' Calleagris jamesoni'' (Sharpe, 1890)
*'' Calleagris kobela'' (Trimen, 1864)
*'' Calleagris krooni'' Vári, 1974
*'' Calleagr ...
'' (scarce flats),
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Celaenorrhinus
''Celaenorrhinus'' is a genus of skipper butterflies which are commonly termed sprites. An alternate name is flats, for their habit of holding their wings flat when resting, but this is also used for related genera. They belong to the spread-w ...
'' of tribe Celaenorrhini;
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Eagris
''Eagris'' is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
*''Eagris decastigma'' Mabille, 1891
*''Eagris denuba'' (Plötz, 1879)
*''Eagris hereus'' (Druce, 1875)
*''Eagris lucetia'' (Hewitson, 1875)
*''Eagris nottoana'' (Wallengren, ...
'', and
** ''
Tagiades
''Tagiades'', commonly known as snow flats, is a genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies. It is the type genus of the tribe Tagiadini of the subfamily Pyrginae in the family Hesperiidae. It contains seventeen species; three of which are fou ...
'' (water flats, snow flats), of tribe Tagiadini
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Flats (USPS), an oversized letter
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Optical flat
An optical flat is an optical-grade piece of glass lapped and polished to be extremely flat on one or both sides, usually within a few tens of nanometres (billionths of a metre). They are used with a monochromatic light to determine the flatn ...
, an extremely flat piece of glass
See also
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The Flat (disambiguation) The Flat or The Flats may refer to any of the following:
Geography
* The Flat (Houtman Abrolhos), a reef in Australia's Houtman Abrolhos island group
*"The Flat", a nickname for South Dunedin, New Zealand
* The Flat, Gloucestershire, in southwest E ...
, including "The Flats"
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Flatten (disambiguation)
Flatten may refer to:
* Flat-ten engine, an engine with two banks of five opposing cylinders each
* Svein Flåtten, Norwegian politician
* Mount Flatten, mountain in the animated television series ''The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show''
* Flattening, ...
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Flattening
Flattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid) respectively. Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness. The usual notation for flattening is ...
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Flatness (disambiguation)
Flatness may refer to:
* Flatness (art)
* Flatness (cosmology)
* Flatness (liquids)
* Flatness (manufacturing), a geometrical tolerance required in certain manufacturing situations
* Flatness (mathematics)
* Flatness (systems theory), a propert ...
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