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 ...

* '' Flat!'' (2010), an Indian film * Flats (band), 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, 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 Flat is an unincorporated community in Wolfe County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Ill ...

, an unincorporated community *

Flat, Missouri Flat is an unincorporated community in southern Phelps County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately sixteen miles southwest of Rolla. The community is at the intersection of Missouri routes M and T. Edgar Springs lies about four ...

, an unincorporated community *

Flat, Texas Flat is a small unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood metropolitan statistical area. History The area was originally titled "Mesquite Flat" when the town applie ...

, an unincorporated community *

Flat Brook Flat Brook, also spelled as Flatbrook, is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey in the United Sta ...

, a tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey *

Flats, Nebraska Flats is an extinct town in McPherson County, Nebraska, United States. The GNIS The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features througho ...

, United States *

Flats, West Virginia Flats is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers c ...

, an unincorporated community *

Forest Lake Area Trail System The ultimate goal of the Forest Lake Area Trail System (FLATS) is to develop a trail system connecting Kirksville and Thousand Hills State Park. The first phase of the trail is a ten-foot wide concrete trail between the Petroglyph Site and Marina ...

, Missouri

Other

Flat, Puy-de-Dôme Flat is a former commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Aulhat-Flat.Flat Island (disambiguation) Flat Island may refer to: * Flat Island (Hong Kong) * Flat Island (Spratly) in the South China Sea * Flat Island (Falkland Islands) in the south Atlantic Ocean * Flat Island Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Andaman Islands * Flat Island, a former separa ...

, in various places *

Flat Islands (disambiguation) Flat Islands may refer to: * Flat Islands (Antarctica) * Flat Islands, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador * Flat Islands, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador See also * Flat Island (disambiguation) * Flat Isles The Northumberlan ...

, in Canada and Antarctica * Flat River (disambiguation), in the United States and Canada

Mathematics and geometry

* Flatness (mathematics), of a surface *

Flat (geometry) In geometry, a flat or Euclidean subspace is a subset of a Euclidean space that is itself a Euclidean space (of lower dimension). The flats in two-dimensional space are points and lines, and the flats in three-dimensional space are points, lin ...

, 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 algebra, a flat module over a ring ''R'' is an ''R''-module ''M'' such that taking the tensor product over ''R'' with ''M'' preserves exact sequences. A module is faithfully flat if taking the tensor product with a sequence produces an exact se ...

in ring theory *

Flat morphism In mathematics, in particular in the theory of schemes in algebraic geometry, a flat morphism ''f'' from a scheme ''X'' to a scheme ''Y'' is a morphism such that the induced map on every stalk is a flat map of rings, i.e., :f_P\colon \mathcal_ ...

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 James Patrick "Flat" Walsh (March 23, 1897 — December 2, 1959) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Maroons and New York Americans between 1927 and 1933. Much of his ca ...

(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