plural of surface analysis

(linguistics) Any valid analysis of a word's morphology regardless of whether it represents its etymology in the strict sense of that word (that is, the historical origin); for example, the word biology has a surface analysis of bio- + -logy although it was not coined as the combination of those combining forms (in fact predating them). The word can validly be viewed as an example of words ending in the suffix -ology even though it was not coined as one (whereas many analogous but newer words were thus coined, such as immunology).

(surface science, materials science) The analysis of a physical surface (uncountable) or any instance of such analysis (countable). / (meteorology) See surface weather analysis.

(vector calculus) a surface that Gauss' law is applied to

(geometry) 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.

plural of Hurwitz surface

plural of surface etymology

(linguistics) The apparent etymology of a term based on components occurring in the modern form of the language, such as earth + -en for earthen, which actually occurred in Old English as eorthene.

A street that is not a freeway and has at-grade intersections with other surface streets.

(mathematics) An equivalence class of parametrized surfaces in a metric space.