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A Regular Surface and special class of Minimal Surface for which the Gaussian Curvature vanishes everywhere. A Tangent Developable, Generalized Cone, and Generalized Cylinder are all flat surfaces.
See also Minimal Surface
References
Gray, A. Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 280, 1993.