Surface (disambiguation)

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

Surface may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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

Technology

Publications

  • Surface (magazine), an American architecture magazine since 1993
  • Surfaces (journal), an English/French electronic journal by the Université de Montréal, Canada, between 1991 and 2001
  • Surface Science (journal), a scientific journal on surfaces

See also

  • Surfacing (disambiguation)
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