Flat or flats may refer to:
Architecture 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
The Flat (disambiguation), including "The Flats" Flat Earth (disambiguation) Flatbed (disambiguation) Flatten (disambiguation) Flattening Flatness (disambiguation)