surfacewide

Surfacewide is a term used to describe properties or phenomena that apply to, affect, or are measured across the entire surface of an object or domain, rather than localized areas.

In materials science and engineering, surfacewide analyses consider the full surface area for properties such as roughness, coatings, corrosion, and chemical potential. Techniques described as surface-wide include measurements and mappings that cover the entire boundary rather than a single spot.

In computer graphics and visualization, surface-wide methods apply shading, lighting, or texture across a whole surface, producing effects that are uniform or globally defined rather than computed per vertex or patch.

In physics and chemistry, surface-wide phenomena refer to processes and interactions occurring over the surface as a whole, such as collective adsorption or surface diffusion spanning large areas.

The term lacks a single formal definition, and usage varies by field. It is commonly written as surface-wide or hyphenated when used as an adjective.