The wave activity in the area between the shoreline and outer limit of breakers.
Surf may refer to:
- An ocean surface wave
In fluid dynamics, wind waves or, more precisely, wind-generated waves are surface waves that occur on the free surface of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and canals or even on small puddles and ponds. They usually result from the wind blowing over a vast enough stretch of fluid surface. Some waves...
as it breaks in shallow water or upon the shore.
- Surfing
Surfing is most commonly known, the term is used for a surface water sport in which the person surfing moves along the face of a breaking ocean wave . However, surfing is not restricted to saltwater, but can sometimes take place on rivers, using a standing wave...
, a surfboard-based water-sport
- Surf culture
Surf culture includes the people, language, fashion and life surrounding the sport of surfing.The culture began early in the 20th century, spread quickly during the 1950s and 1960s, and continues to evolve. It affected fashion, music, literature, films, jargon, and more...
, the culture surrounding the sport of surfing
- Surf music
Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly Orange County and other areas of Southern California. It was particularly popular between 1961 and 1965, has subsequently been revived and was highly influential on subsequent rock music...
- Surf (detergent)
Surf is the name of a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever and sold in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, South Africa and many other countries. Surf was introduced in 1959 after Rinso failed...
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Within higher-education, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships are a common summer immersion experience which supplement research activities that occur during the academic year. Typically, these highly competitive undergraduate programs are overseen by a member of a college's faculty, who...
- Atlantic City Surf
The Atlantic City Surf were a professional baseball team based in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the United States. The Surf were most recently a member of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball...
Professional Baseball Club
- Jersey Surf Drum and Bugle Corps
The Jersey Surf Drum and Bugle Corps is a Drum Corps International World Class drum and bugle corps. Founded in 1990, the corps is based out of Berlin, New Jersey. The Jersey Surf first entered World Class competition in 2009...
- "Surfing the Web", i.e.
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The wave activity in the area between the shoreline and outer limit of breakers.
Surf may refer to:
- An ocean surface wave
In fluid dynamics, wind waves or, more precisely, wind-generated waves are surface waves that occur on the free surface of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and canals or even on small puddles and ponds. They usually result from the wind blowing over a vast enough stretch of fluid surface. Some waves...
as it breaks in shallow water or upon the shore.
- Surfing
Surfing is most commonly known, the term is used for a surface water sport in which the person surfing moves along the face of a breaking ocean wave . However, surfing is not restricted to saltwater, but can sometimes take place on rivers, using a standing wave...
, a surfboard-based water-sport
- Surf culture
Surf culture includes the people, language, fashion and life surrounding the sport of surfing.The culture began early in the 20th century, spread quickly during the 1950s and 1960s, and continues to evolve. It affected fashion, music, literature, films, jargon, and more...
, the culture surrounding the sport of surfing
- Surf music
Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly Orange County and other areas of Southern California. It was particularly popular between 1961 and 1965, has subsequently been revived and was highly influential on subsequent rock music...
- Surf (detergent)
Surf is the name of a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever and sold in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, South Africa and many other countries. Surf was introduced in 1959 after Rinso failed...
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Within higher-education, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships are a common summer immersion experience which supplement research activities that occur during the academic year. Typically, these highly competitive undergraduate programs are overseen by a member of a college's faculty, who...
- Atlantic City Surf
The Atlantic City Surf were a professional baseball team based in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the United States. The Surf were most recently a member of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball...
Professional Baseball Club
- Jersey Surf Drum and Bugle Corps
The Jersey Surf Drum and Bugle Corps is a Drum Corps International World Class drum and bugle corps. Founded in 1990, the corps is based out of Berlin, New Jersey. The Jersey Surf first entered World Class competition in 2009...
- "Surfing the Web", i.e. exploring the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks...
- surf (software), a computer visualization program for real algebraic geometry (surf.sourceforge.net)
- SURF
SURF is a robust image descriptor, first presented by Herbert Bay et al. in 2006, that can be used in computer vision tasks like object recognition or 3D reconstruction. It is partly inspired by the SIFT descriptor...
"Speeded Up Robust Features", a computer vision algorithm