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flat⋅ten

  [flat-n]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to make flat.
2. to knock down: The boxer flattened his opponent in the second round.
–verb (used without object)
3. to become flat.
—Verb phrases
4. flatten in, Nautical. flat 1 (def. 61).
5. flatten out, Aeronautics. to fly into a horizontal position, as after a dive.
Origin:
1620–30; flat 1 + -en 1

Related forms:
flat⋅ten⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
2. ground, fell, prostrate, deck, floor.
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flat·ten   (flāt'n)   
v.   flat·tened, flat·ten·ing, flat·tens

v.   tr.
  1. To make flat or flatter.
  2. To knock down; lay low: The boxer was flattened with one punch.
v.   intr.
To become flat or flatter.
flat'ten·er n.
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Flatten

Flat"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening.] [From Flat, a.]

1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.

3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.

4. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.

To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel.

Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.

Flatten

Flat"ten\, v. i. To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : flatten
Spanish: allanar, aplanar,
German: flach werden,
Japanese: 平らにする
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flatten

vt. [common] To remove structural information, esp. to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat-ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form."
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flatten
To remove structural information, especially to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form."
[The Jargon File]

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