What does surface mean?
Definitions for surface
ˈsɜr fɪssur·face
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word surface.
Princeton's WordNet
surfacenoun
the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
"there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface"
surfacenoun
the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
"they skimmed over the surface of the water"; "a brush small enough to clean every dental surface"; "the sun has no distinct surface"
surface, Earth's surfacenoun
the outermost level of the land or sea
"earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water"
surfacenoun
a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
"it was not what it appeared to be on the surface"
open, surfacenoun
information that has become public
"all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface"
airfoil, aerofoil, control surface, surfaceadjective
a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
surfaceverb
on the surface
"surface materials of the moon"
surface, come up, rise up, riseverb
come to the surface
coat, surfaceverb
put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
"coat the cake with chocolate"
come on, come out, turn up, surface, show upverb
appear or become visible; make a showing
"She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
GCIDE
Surfaceverb
To rise from the depths of a liquid to the surface; as, the submarine surfaced to recharge its batteries.
Surfaceverb
To become known or public; -- said of information.
Surfaceverb
To show up, as a person who was in hiding; as, he absconded with the payroll and surfaced in Argentina.
Wiktionary
surfacenoun
The up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
surfacenoun
The outside hull of a tangible object.
surfacenoun
The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
surfaceverb
To provide something with a surface.
surfaceverb
To apply a surface to something.
surfaceverb
To rise to the surface.
surfaceverb
To come out of hiding.
surfaceverb
For information or facts to become known.
surfaceverb
To work a mine near the surface.
surfaceverb
To appear or be found.
Webster Dictionary
Surfacenoun
the exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body
Etymology: [F. See Sur-, and Face, and cf. Superficial.]
Surfacenoun
hence, outward or external appearance
Etymology: [F. See Sur-, and Face, and cf. Superficial.]
Surfacenoun
a magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface
Etymology: [F. See Sur-, and Face, and cf. Superficial.]
Surfacenoun
that part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion
Etymology: [F. See Sur-, and Face, and cf. Superficial.]
Surfaceverb
to give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain
Etymology: [F. See Sur-, and Face, and cf. Superficial.]
Surfaceverb
to work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold
Etymology: [F. See Sur-, and Face, and cf. Superficial.]
Freebase
Surface
In mathematics, specifically, in topology, a surface is a two-dimensional, topological manifold. The most familiar examples are those that arise as the boundaries of solid objects in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space R³ — for example, the surface of a ball. On the other hand, there are surfaces, such as the Klein bottle, that cannot be embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space without introducing singularities or self-intersections. To say that a surface is "two-dimensional" means that, about each point, there is a coordinate patch on which a two-dimensional coordinate system is defined. For example, the surface of the Earth is a two-dimensional sphere, and latitude and longitude provide two-dimensional coordinates on it. The concept of surface finds application in physics, engineering, computer graphics, and many other disciplines, primarily in representing the surfaces of physical objects. For example, in analyzing the aerodynamic properties of an airplane, the central consideration is the flow of air along its surface.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Surface
sur′fās, n. the exterior part of anything.—adj. Sur′faced, having a surface.—ns. Sur′faceman, a miner employed in open-air working: a workman employed in keeping a railway-bed in repair; Sur′face-print′ing, printing from a relief surface, as cotton-cloth; Sur′facer, one who, or that which, smooths or levels a surface; Sur′face-ten′sion, in liquids, that property in virtue of which a liquid surface behaves as if it were a stretched elastic membrane—say a sheet of india-rubber; Sur′face-wa′ter, drainage-water; Sur′facing, the act of giving a certain surface to anything. [Fr., from sur—L. super, and face—L. facies.]
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
Surface
A galvanic battery is arranged in surface when all the positive plates are connected together and all the negative plates are also connected. This makes it equivalent to one large cell, the surface of whose plates would be equal to the aggregate surface of the plates of the battery. It is also used as an adjective, as "a surface arrangement of battery."
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
surface
In fortification, that part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion; the double of this line with the curtain is equal to the exterior side.
Rap Dictionary
surface
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'surface' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1099
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'surface' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2831
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'surface' in Nouns Frequency: #431
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of surface in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of surface in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of surface in a Sentence
Our first indication of whether we were successful in collecting a sample will come on October 21 when we downlink the back-away movie from the spacecraft, if TAG made a significant disturbance of the surface, we likely collected a lot of material.
It turned out he was basically a very kind and generous man, which he covered up with his surface gruffness and his surface blusteriness, we had a good time doing it.
This was the one time we're going to have to do a little bit of a deeper dive here, on the surface you can't see where it happened. What I guarantee they've had to do in Alabama is the bad people... went deeper into the well. Very deep into the well of how they did the flips.
The journey of life is not taking place on a flat surface, there is hills and valleys on roads
Asteroid Bennu is rough and rocky, so if you look at it from a different angle or capture it at a time when the sun is not directly overhead, that dramatically changes what the surface looks like, these images were deliberately taken close to noon, with the Sun shining straight down, when there's not as many shadows.
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Translations for surface
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- oppervlakAfrikaans
- سطحArabic
- superfícieCatalan, Valencian
- povrchCzech
- arwynebWelsh
- overfladeDanish
- OberflächeGerman
- αναδύομαιGreek
- surfacoEsperanto
- superficieSpanish
- paljastua, tulla julkiFinnish
- surface, faire surfaceFrench
- uachtarIrish
- superficieGalician
- felszínHungarian
- permukaanIndonesian
- surfacoIdo
- superficieItalian
- משטחHebrew
- 表面Japanese
- 표면Korean
- superficiesLatin
- virsmaLatvian
- karetai, mata, kārewa, maieaMāori
- ഉപരിതലംMalayalam
- permukaanMalay
- overflate, dekkeNorwegian
- boven water komen, aan de oppervlakte brengen, opduiken, oppervlakDutch
- overflate, dekkeNorwegian Nynorsk
- powierzchniaPolish
- superfíciePortuguese
- suprafațăRomanian
- всплывать, поверхность, выяснятьсяRussian
- по̏вршина, ìsplivati, izroniti, ѝспливати, изронити, pȍvršinaSerbo-Croatian
- povrchSlovak
- površinaSlovene
- ytaSwedish
- ఉపరితలంTelugu
- พื้นผิวThai
- yüzeyTurkish
- поверхняUkrainian
- mặtVietnamese
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