Usually means: Outer layer of an object.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. surface: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. surface: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surface: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surface: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surface: Vocabulary.com
  6. Surface, surface: Wordnik
  7. surface: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Surface: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Surface, surface: Wiktionary
  10. surface: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. surface: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. surface: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. surface: Dictionary.com
  14. surface: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. surface: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Surface (1st generation), Surface (Aero Chord song), Surface (Surface album), Surface (TV series), Surface (band), Surface (differential geometry), Surface (disambiguation), Surface (first generation), Surface (geometry), Surface (group), Surface (magazine), Surface (mathematics), Surface (topology), Surface, The Surface: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Surface: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. surface: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. surface: Rhymezone
  20. surface, surface (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. surface: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Surface: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. surface: Free Dictionary
  24. surface: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. surface: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. surface: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surface: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Surface (geometry), Surface (physics), surface: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Surface (geometry), Surface (physics), surface: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Surface (geometry), Surface (physics), surface: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SURFACE: Acronym Finder
  2. surface: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Surface: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. surface: Nine Planets Glossary
  3. surface: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. surface: Lighting Design Glossary
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
noun:  The outside hull of a tangible object.
noun:  (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
noun:  (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
verb:  (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
verb:  (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
verb:  (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
verb:  (transitive) To bring to the surface.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To come out of hiding.
verb:  (intransitive, of information, facts, content, etc) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found.
verb:  (transitive) To make (information, facts, content, etc) known.
verb:  (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
noun:  A surname.

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