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A surface, as the term is most generally used, is the outermost or uppermost layer of a physical object or space.
Surface or surfaces may also refer to:
Mathematics
- Surface (mathematics), a generalization of a plane which needs not be flat
- Surface (differential geometry), a differentiable two-dimensional manifold
- Surface (topology), a two-dimensional manifold
- Algebraic surface, an algebraic variety of dimension two
- Coordinate surfaces
- Fractal surface, generated using a stochastic algorithm
- Polyhedral surface
- Surface area
- Surface integral
Arts and entertainment
- Surface (band), an American R&B and pop trio
- Surface (Surface album), 1986
- Surfaces (band), American musical duo
- Surface (Circle album), 1998
- "Surface" (Aero Chord song), 2014
- Surface (2005 TV series), an American science fiction show, 2005–2006
- Surface (2022 TV series), an American psychological thriller miniseries that began streaming in 2022
- The Surface (film), an American film, 2014
- "Surface", a song by Your Memorial from the 2010 album Atonement
- The Surface (album), 2024, the fifth album by Beartooth
Physical sciences
- Surface finishing, a range of industrial processes that alter the surface of a manufactured item to achieve a certain property
- Surface science, the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases
- Surface wave, a mechanical wave, in physics
- Interface (matter), common boundary among two different phases of matter
- Planetary surface
Transportation
- Surface mail, transportation of mail that travel on land and sea but not air
- Surface transport, transportation of goods and people on land and sea
People
- Harvey A. Surface (1867–1941), American zoologist and Pennsylvania legislator
- Mary Hall Surface (born 1958), American playwright and theater director
Technology
- Microsoft Surface, the brand for a line of computers and related accessories by Microsoft
- Microsoft PixelSense (formerly known as Surface), a commercial computing platform
- Computer representation of surfaces, a way of representing objects, in technical applications of 3D computer graphics
- Deep structure and surface structure, concepts in Chomskyan linguistics
Publications
- Surface (magazine), an American architecture magazine since 1993
- Surfaces (Université de Montréal journal), published from 1991 to 1999
- Surfaces (MDPI journal), published from 2018 onwards
- Surface Science (journal)