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flat⋅ten
[flat-n]
–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)
—Verb phrases| 3. | to become flat. |
| 4. | flatten in, Nautical. flat 1 (def. 61). |
| 5. | flatten out, Aeronautics. to fly into a horizontal position, as after a dive. |
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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.
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Language Translation for : flatten
Spanish:
allanar, aplanar,
German:
flach werden,
Japanese:
平らにする
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."
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