Flat

• Apartment, known as a flat in the United Kingdom, Ireland, 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 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 sludge metal and punk band • Flats (comics), 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 flats, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race ==Geography==

Landforms • Flat (landform), a relatively level area within a region of greater relief • Mudflat, intertidal wetland with a substrate of fine sediments Bodies of water • Flat, a shallow water area in the context of boating, fishing or marine biology, 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), in various places • Flat Islands (disambiguation), in Canada and Antarctica • Flat River (disambiguation), in the United States and Canada ==Mathematics==

• Flat function, a real function where all derivatives at a point are 0 • 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 space, a space with zero curvature • Flat surface (geometry), a surface with zero curvature • 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 Celaenorrhinini; • Eagris, and • Tagiades (water flats, snow flats), of tribe Tagiadini • Flat (USPS), an oversized letter • Flat (watercraft), a type of barge, especially on the River Mersey • Optical flat, an extremely flat piece of glass ==See also==