Phrase Hound found 31 phrases and 18 compound words that contain surfaces. The most common are listed below. Open surfaces in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 31
- surfaces of revolutionplural of surface of revolution: A surface formed when a given curve is revolved around a given axis. If the resulting surface is a closed one, it also defines a solid of revolution.
- control surfacesplural of control surface: A moveable surface attached to a machine such as an aircraft or submarine that can be used to control the machine's motion in roll, pitch or yaw.
- minimal surfacesplural of minimal surface: Any surface that has the least possible surface area of those into which it could transform; typically the shapes of soap bubbles that span wire frames
- Gaussian surfacesplural of Gaussian surface: a surface that Gauss' law is applied to
- Riemann surfacesplural of Riemann surface: A one-dimensional complex manifold; a generalization of the complex plane.
- faying surfacesplural of faying surface: Either of a pair of surfaces that are in contact in a joint.
- attack surfacesplural of attack surface: The total area on the surface of an object.
- bedding surfacesplural of bedding surface: The planar surface between adjacent strata
- free surfacesplural of free surface: The surface of a fluid that is subject to zero parallel shear stress (e.g. the interface between two homogeneous fluids).
- heating surfacesplural of heating surface: In a steam boiler, the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, especially of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces.
- land surfacesplural of land surface: The outermost layer of the Earth, consisting of soil, vegetation, and other components.
- re-surfacesthird-person singular simple present indicative of re-surface: To come once again to the surface.
- work surfacesplural of work surface: A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers in a kitchen, that can be used to work on.
- subway-surfacesplural of subway-surface: Streetcar lines whose sections in the city center operate in tunnels like subway lines; typically built to speed up streetcar service by bypassing congested streets, as provision for future conversion to rapid …
- datum surfacesplural of datum surface: A surface on a workpiece that establishes a datum.
- Catalan surfacesplural of Catalan surface: A ruled surface whose rulings are all parallel to a fixed plane.
- skew surfacesplural of skew surface: A ruled surface in which two successive straight lines do not intersect.
- Fermi surfacesplural of Fermi surface: An abstract boundary, of constant energy, useful for predicting the thermal, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of metals, semimetals, and doped semiconductors.
- conical surfacesplural of conical surface: Synonym of cone (“a surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line or a solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its …
- caustic surfacesplural of caustic surface: A surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents.
- Morin surfacesplural of Morin surface: A halfway model of the sphere eversion, featuring fourfold rotational symmetry.
- Hurwitz surfacesplural of Hurwitz surface: A compact Riemann surface with precisely 84(g − 1) automorphisms, where g is the genus of the surface. This number is maximal by virtue of Hurwitz's theorem on automorphisms.
- detectable warning surfacesplural of detectable warning surface: A type of walkway paving tile, consisting of a dot array block and a line stack block, used to inform visually impaired pedestrians of a route (lined path) and danger ahead (dotted threshold).
- Seifert surfacesplural of Seifert surface: An orientable surface whose boundary is a given link.
- Kummer surfacesplural of Kummer surface: The Kummer variety of a two-dimensional abelian variety.
Compound words 18
- hypersurfacesplural of hypersurface: A n-dimensional surface in a space (often a Euclidean space) of dimension n+1
- worksurfacesplural of worksurface: A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers in a kitchen, that can be used to work on.
- isosurfacesplural of isosurface: A surface that represents points of a constant value within a volume of space
- paleosurfacesplural of paleosurface: A surface (of the Earth) as it existed in prehistoric times.
- cavosurfacesplural of cavosurface: The surface of a cavity
- countersurfacesplural of countersurface: A surface over which another moves frictionally
- eigensurfacesplural of eigensurface: A surface that is the solution of an eigenequation
- ergosurfacesplural of ergosurface: The outer surface of the ergosphere.
- metasurfacesplural of metasurface: The surface of a metamaterial.
- microsurfacesplural of microsurface: A surface with a microscale shape or pattern.