| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | design surface | 设计图面 (The main area of the Macro Designer where macro actions are placed to be made into a macro) |
| comp., MS | multi-surface | 多曲面 (A shape representing a union of all the positions in a set of surfaces) |
| comp., MS | palettized surface | 调色表面 (A surface in which each pixel color is represented by a number that indexes into a color palette) |
| comp., MS | procedural surface | 过程化表面 (A surface with pixel RGB color and alpha values defined dynamically. Only the procedure used to compute the surface is stored in memory) |
| comp., MS | surface area | 外围应用 (The number of ways in which a piece of software can be attacked) |
| comp., MS | surface chart | 曲面图 (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) |
| comp., MS | surface picking | 表面选取 (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) |
| comp., MS | UI surface | UI 设计面 (The area in the new Windows UI where developers can place controls. The UI surface includes the app canvas, the app bar, a context menu, a flyout, and so on) |