| English | Russian |
| scratch the surface of | поверхностно использовать (That class only scratches the surface of the functionality available. — Этот класс лишь поверхностно использует доступную функциональность. Alex_Odeychuk) |
| surface area | контактная зона (The number of ways in which a piece of software can be attacked) |
| surface chart | поверхностная диаграмма (A chart that shows a three dimensional surface that connects a set of data points. As in a topographic map, colors and patterns indicate areas that are in the same range of values) |
| surface picking | выбор поверхности (The process of choosing which input surface contributes most to the output surface at a certain position on the output. Surface picking is often used with mouse operations to choose different actions in code that depend on which image you select. In cases where several images are alpha blended on the output point, the transform can use the alpha channel of each input sample to choose the input surface) |
