surface
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French surface.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
surface (plural surfaces)
- The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- The outside hull of a tangible object.
- 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
- Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
- 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
- (mathematics) (geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
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up-side of a flat object
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Verb [edit]
surface (third-person singular simple present surfaces, present participle surfacing, simple past and past participle surfaced)
- (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
- (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
- (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
- (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
- (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
- (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
- (intransitive) To appear or be found.
Translations [edit]
to rise to the surface
for information to become known
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
sur- + face, based on Latin superficies.
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
surface f (plural surfaces)
