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Flat or flats may refer to:


Architecture

* Flat (housing), 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 *
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!'' (2010), an Indian film * Flats (band), an English band *
Flats (comics) A flatter is a coloring specialist within the comic book industry that prepares the inked or sketched comic book page for the colorist with digital art software such as Adobe Photoshop. The specialist does so by selecting the objects on the pag ...
, the first stage in the comic coloring process


Footwear

* Flats, footwear which is not 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 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

* 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 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 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 ** 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) 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 *
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 Northumberland I ...
, 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 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

* 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 ''Calleagris'' is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. Species *'' Calleagris hollandi'' (Butler, 1897) *'' Calleagris jamesoni'' (Sharpe, 1890) *''Calleagris kobela ''Calleagris kobela'', the Mrs Raven's flat or Mrs Raven's skipp ...
'' (scarce flats), ** '' Celaenorrhinus'' of tribe Celaenorrhini; ** '' Eagris'', 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 *
Flats (USPS) The United States Postal Service The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for ...
, an oversized letter * Optical flat, an extremely flat piece of glass


See also

* * *
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" *
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, ...
* Flattening *
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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