Flat or flats may refer to:

Architecture

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

* Flat (music), a symbol () which denotes a lower pitch * Flat (soldier), a two-dimensional toy soldier made of tin or plastic *

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 mus ...

, 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 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 conventi ...

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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 *

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

Footwear

* Flats, footwear which is not high-heeled *

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 sli ...

s, derived from ballet shoes, for casual wear as well as dancing *

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" * Racing flats, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race

Geography

Landforms

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,

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, often used in plural form **

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 ...

, an area of Cape Cod Bay off the shore of Massachusetts, U.S. **

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 ** 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