Mathematics and Geometry
- Flat (geometry), the generalization of lines and planes in an n-dimensional Euclidean space
- Flat (matroids), a further generalization of flats from linear algebra to the context of matroids
- For use of flat sign in mathematics, see musical isomorphism - mapping vectors to covectors
- Flat morphism in algebraic geometry
- Flat module in abstract algebra
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