flat
n.
level surface; level area of land; tone one half step lower than another (Music); apartment (British)
adv.
levelly, evenly; certainly, absolutely; exactly; below the proper pitch (Music); without interest
adj.
having a planar surface; deflated (about a tire); absolute; lying down, horizontal; spread out; tasteless; monotonous, dull; mat, not shiny; having a tone one half step lower (Music)
Flat
Flat or flats may refer to:
FlatnessFlat (music), a type of musical symbol
Flat (domicile), an apartment
Flats (theatre), flat pieces of theatrical scenery
Flats (USPS), an oversized letter
Flat, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Flat, Alaska, United States
Flat, Missouri, United States
The Flats, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Flat Island, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
Flat Brook, tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey
Flat River (North Carolina), river in Southern Person County, North Carolina
Racing flats, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race
Flat (geometry), the generalization of lines and planes in an n-dimensional Euclidean spaceFlat, a space without curvature (formally, with zero curvature)Flats, women's
shoes with almost no heel at allA flat
tireFlat, an anagram or puzzle in verse, the primary form of wordplay before crosswords came along
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flat (de)
n.
apartment, flat
flat
1. Lacking any complex internal structure. "That
bitty box has only a flat file system, not a hierarchical one." The verb form is
flatten. Usually used pejoratively (at least with respect to file systems).
2. Said of a memory architecture like that of the
VAX or
Motorola 680x0 that is one big linear address space (typically with each possible value of a processor register corresponding to a unique address). This is a
Good Thing. The opposite is a "
segmented" architecture like that of the
Intel 80x86 in which addresses are composed from a base-register/offset pair. Segmented designs are generally considered cretinous.
3. A flat
domain is one where all elements except
bottom are incomparable (equally well defined). E.g. the integers.
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Flat
Used in the context of general equities.
Convertibles: earning
interest on the date of payment only.
General: having neither a
short nor
long position in a stock.
Clean.
Market: characterized by horizontal price movement, usually the result of low activity.
Equities: to
execute without
commission or markup.