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Definitions of surface:

part of speech: noun

The exterior part of anything.

part of speech: noun

The upper face or side of a thing; the outside; the upper stratum of the soil; that which has length and breadth only.

part of speech: noun

The outside part of anything that has length, breadth, and thickness; the upper face of a solid; outside; hence, outward appearance; as, all looks well, on the surface.

Usage examples for surface:

• She had taken to looking below the surface of things. "Leonore Stubbs", L. B. Walford

• Water may be under the surface "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846", James Richardson

• How can a material thing and an immaterial thing " come together" at a point or surface "An Introduction to Philosophy", George Stuart Fullerton

• 6. The extremities of a surface are lines. "The Teaching of Geometry", David Eugene Smith