Surf or SURF may refer to:
Commercial products
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Surf (detergent)
Surf (known as Sunil in the Netherlands) is a British brand of laundry detergent manufactured and marketed around the world by Unilever, except in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, where it has been owned by Sun Products (now Henkel Cor ...
, a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever
Computers and software
* "Surfing the Web", slang for exploring the
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet.
Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web ...
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surf (web browser), a lightweight web browser for Unix-like systems
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''Surf'' (video game), a 2020 video game included with
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge is a proprietary, cross-platform web browser created by Microsoft. It was first released in 2015 as part of Windows 10 and Xbox One and later ported to other platforms as a fork of Google's Chromium open-source project: Android ...
* SURF, an acronym for "
Speeded up robust features
In computer vision, speeded up robust features (SURF) is a patented local feature detector and descriptor. It can be used for tasks such as object recognition, image registration, classification, or 3D reconstruction. It is partly inspired by ...
", a computer vision algorithm
Education
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Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Within higher-education, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) are a common summer immersion experience which supplement research activities that occur during the academic year. Typically, these highly competitive undergraduate programs ...
, a common summer immersion experience in higher education which supplement research activities that occur during the academic year
Music
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''Surf'' (Roddy Frame album), a 2002 album released by Roddy Frame
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''Surf'' (Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment album), a 2015 album by Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
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Surf music
Surf music (or surf rock, surf pop, or surf guitar) is a genre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California. It was especially popular from 1958 to 1964 in two major forms. The first is instrumental su ...
, a genre of popular music associated with surf culture
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"Surf" (Mac Miller song), a 2020 song by Mac Miller
Places
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Surf, California
Surf is an unincorporated area of Santa Barbara County, California, located along the Pacific coast within a publicly accessible area of Vandenberg Space Force Base west of the city of Lompoc. The site originally was established as a railroad ...
, unincorporated community in Santa Barbara County near Lompoc
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Surf station, passenger rail station served by Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner
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Sanford Underground Research Facility, national laboratory for experiments conducted deep underground, in South Dakota
Popular culture
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Surf culture, the culture surrounding the sport of surfing
Ships
* , the name of more than one United States Navy ship
Sports
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Surfing, a surface water sport
* The
Atlantic City Surf
The Atlantic City Surf were a professional minor league baseball team based in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Surf was most recently a member of the Can-Am League, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. The Surf played its home games ...
, a defunct professional baseball team that played in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the United States from 1998 to 2008
Other uses
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Surf zone
As ocean surface waves approach shore, they get taller and break, forming the foamy, bubbly surface called ''surf''. The region of breaking waves defines the surf zone, or breaker zone. After breaking in the surf zone, the waves (now reduced i ...
, the
foreshore
The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore, is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide (in other words, the area within the tidal range). This area can include several types of habitats with various species ...
region where approaching
ocean surface wave
In fluid dynamics, a wind wave, water wave, or wind-generated water wave, is a surface wave that occurs on the free surface of bodies of water as a result from the wind blowing over the water surface. The contact distance in the direction o ...
s get taller and
break
Break or Breaks or The Break may refer to:
Time off from duties
* Recess (break), time in which a group of people is temporarily dismissed from its duties
* Break (work), time off during a shift/recess
** Coffee break, a short mid-morning res ...
to form foamy/bubbly surface known as ''surf''
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SURF (Stanford US-Russia Forum)
Surf or SURF may refer to:
Commercial products
* Surf (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever
Computers and software
* "Surfing the Web", slang for exploring the World Wide Web
* surf (web browser), a lightweight web brows ...
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Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum
SURF - Scotland's Regeneration Forum is the independent regeneration forum for Scotland. It seeks to improve regeneration policy and practice and works closely with policy-makers in the Scottish Government and its agencies. The organisation was ...
, an urban renewal body
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Sanford Underground Research Facility, the underground laboratory
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SURFnet
SURF is an organization that develops, implements and maintains the national research and education network (NREN) of the Netherlands, It operates the national research network formally called SURFnet.
SURF as a network is a backbone computer net ...
, the university computing organisation in the Netherlands
See also
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Surfing (disambiguation)
Surfing is a surface water sport in which the rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward or deep face of a moving wave. Related activities include:
*Bodyboarding, water sport using a bodyboard
*Bodysurfing, riding a wave without the assi ...
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Serfdom
Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which deve ...
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Surf and turf
Surf and turf or surf 'n' turf is a main course combining seafood and red meat. A typical seafood component would be lobster (either lobster tail or a whole lobster), prawns, shrimp, squid or scallops, any of which could be steamed, grilled or ...
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Surf City (disambiguation)
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Surf clam (disambiguation)
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