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) 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 *

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 * Flat (theatre), a flat piece of theatrical scenery * Flat, a leading type of wordplay, as identified by the National Puzzlers' League * ''

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 * Flats (band), an English band * Flats (comics), the first stage in the comic coloring process

Footwear

* Flats, footwear which is not high-heeled footwear, high-heeled * Ballet flats, derived from ballet shoes, for casual wear as well as dancing * Ballet shoes (also known as ballet slippers), often referred to as "flats" or "flat shoes" * Racing flats, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race

Geography

Landforms

* Flat (landform), a relatively level area within a region of greater relief

Bodies of water

* Flat, a shallow water area in the context of boating, fishing or marine biology, often used in plural form ** Brewster Flats, an area of Cape Cod Bay off the shore of Massachusetts, U.S. ** Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm, off the coast of Kent, England ** Rhyl Flats, a wind farm off the coast of North Wales * Flat coast, a shoreline where the land descends gradually into the sea

Places

United States

* Flat, Alaska, a census-designated place * Flat, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Flat, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Flat, Texas, an unincorporated community * Flat Brook, a tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey * Flats, Nebraska, United States * Flats, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Forest Lake Area Trail System, Missouri

Other

* Flat, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune in the French region of Auvergne * Flat Island (disambiguation), in various places * Flat Islands (disambiguation), in Canada and Antarctica * Flat River (disambiguation), in the United States and Canada

Mathematics and geometry

* Flatness (mathematics), of a surface * 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 ring theory * Flat morphism in algebraic geometry * Flat sign, for its use in mathematics; see musical isomorphism, mapping vectors to covectors

People

Nickname

* Earl "Flat" Chase (1910–1954), Canadian baseball player * Flat Walsh (1897–1959), Canadian ice hockey goaltender

Fictional characters

* Flat Eric, a character in some Levi's commercials * ''Flat Stanley'', namesake of an American children's book series

Groups

* FLATS or First Lady Astronaut Trainees, American women who underwent NASA Project Mercury physiological screening tests

Other uses

* Flat (gridiron football), the area of the gridiron football field * Flat butterflies or flats, certain skipper butterfly genera in subfamily Pyrginae: ** ''Calleagris'' (scarce flats), ** ''Celaenorrhinus'' of tribe Celaenorrhini; ** ''Eagris'', and ** ''Tagiades'' (water flats, snow flats), of tribe Tagiadini * Flats (USPS), an oversized letter * Optical flat, an extremely flat piece of glass