Etymology

surface

sur·face
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Today it means: The external boundary of an object or body. Full definition →

Middle French surface
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  1. Middle French · borrowed fromsurface
  2. English todaysurface

Borrowed from Middle French surface. By surface analysis, sur- + face. Doublet of superficies.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.