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Glatt is a geographical name:

Locations:

Waters:

  • Glatt (Neckar) , left tributary of the Neckar in Neckarhausen, town of Horb am Neckar, Freudenstadt district
  • Glatt (Rhine) , left tributary of the Rhine near Rheinsfelden, municipality of Glattfelden, Bülach district, canton of Zurich
  • Glatt (Thur) , right tributary of the Thur near Oberbüren, constituency Wil, canton Sankt Gallen
  • Jenneckes Glatt , lake near Rheinberg, Wesel district, North Rhine-Westphalia


Glatt is a family name:

  • Adolf Glatt (1899–1984), Swiss sculptor and painter
  • Karl Glatt (1912–2003), Swiss painter and draftsman
  • Max Glatt (also: Max Meier Glatt; 1912–2002), British psychiatrist and addiction expert of German origin
  • Volkan Glatt (* 1982), German-Turkish soccer player


Glatt is part of the company's name:

  • Glatt group of companies , a plant manufacturer in the field of processing and refining powdery solids (Binzen, Germany)
  • Glattzentrum , a shopping center in Wallisellen in the canton of Zurich


smooth , adjectival attribute, or smoothness , associated noun abstraction, denote:

  • in materials science, the surface quality, see the counter-term roughness
  • In road safety, icy or snow-covered roads, see winter slippery
  • in analysis an arbitrarily often differentiable function, see smooth function
  • a continuously differentiable curve in differential geometry, see smooth curve
  • in differential topology a special class of manifolds, see differentiable manifold
  • In number theory, a smallness requirement for the prime divisors or prime divisor powers of a number, see smooth number


See also:

Wiktionary: smooth  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations