Surface (disambiguation)

A surface, as the term is most generally used, is the outermost or uppermost layer of a physical object or space.

Surface or surfaces may also refer to:

Mathematics

 * Surface (mathematics), a generalization of a plane which needs not be flat
 * Surface (differential geometry), a differentiable two-dimensional manifold
 * Surface (topology), a two-dimensional manifold
 * Algebraic surface, an algebraic variety of dimension two
 * Coordinate surfaces
 * Fractal surface, generated using a stochastic algorithm
 * Polyhedral surface
 * Surface area
 * Surface integral

Arts and entertainment

 * Surface (band), an American R&B and pop trio
 * Surface (Surface album), 1986
 * Surfaces (band), American musical duo
 * Surface (Circle album), 1998
 * "Surface" (Aero Chord song), 2014
 * Surface (2005 TV series), an American science fiction show, 2005–2006
 * Surface (2022 TV series), an American psychological thriller miniseries that began streaming in 2022
 * The Surface (film), an American film, 2014
 * "Surface", a song by Your Memorial from the 2010 album Atonement
 * The Surface (album), 2024, the fifth album by Beartooth

Physical sciences

 * Surface finishing, a range of industrial processes that alter the surface of a manufactured item to achieve a certain property
 * Surface science, the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases
 * Surface wave, a mechanical wave, in physics
 * Interface (matter), common boundary among two different phases of matter
 * Planetary surface
 * Surface of the Earth
 * Sea surface

Transportation

 * Surface mail, transportation of mail that travel on land and sea but not air
 * Surface transport, transportation of goods and people on land and sea

People

 * Harvey A. Surface (1867–1941), American zoologist and Pennsylvania legislator
 * Mary Hall Surface (born 1958), American playwright and theater director

Technology

 * Microsoft Surface, the brand for a line of computers and related accessories by Microsoft
 * Microsoft PixelSense (formerly known as Surface), a commercial computing platform
 * Computer representation of surfaces, a way of representing objects, in technical applications of 3D computer graphics
 * Deep structure and surface structure, concepts in Chomskyan linguistics

Publications

 * Surface (magazine), an American architecture magazine since 1993
 * Surfaces (Université de Montréal journal), published from 1991 to 1999
 * Surfaces (MDPI journal), published from 2018 onwards
 * Surface Science (journal)