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[flat] FLAT or FLATS may refer to: [TOC right]
** Architecture
- Apartment , known as a flat in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and other Commonwealth countries
** Arts and entertainment
- Flat (music) , a symbol ( [flat] ) 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 band
- Flats (comics) , the first stage in the comic coloring process
** Footwear
- Flats, footwear which is not high-heeled
- Ballet flat s, derived from ballet shoes, for casual wear as well as dancing
- Ballet shoe s (also known as ballet slippers), often referred to as "flats" or "flat shoes"
- Racing flat s, 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 and geometry
- 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 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
- Optical flat , an extremely flat piece of glass
** See also
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- The Flat (disambiguation) , including "The Flats"
- Flat Earth (disambiguation)
- Flatbed (disambiguation)
- Flatten (disambiguation)
- Flattening
- Flatness (disambiguation)
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