surface
/ˈsɜːfɪs/
Dictionary
noun
- The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- The outside hull of a tangible object.
- Outward or external appearance.
"On the surface, the spy looked like a typical businessman."
- The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
- (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
verb
- To provide something with a surface.
- To apply a surface to something.
- To rise to the surface.
- To bring to the surface.
- To come out of hiding.
- For information or facts to become known.
- To make information or facts known.
- To work a mine near the surface.
- To appear or be found.
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