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,
  • Surface (2022 TV series), an American psychological thriller miniseries
  • The Surface (film), an American film, 2014
  • "Surface", a song by Your Memorial from the 2010 album Atonement
  • The Surface (album), 2023, 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
  • Surface of the Earth
  • Sea 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)

See also

  • Surfacing (disambiguation)