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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flatten \Flat"ten\, v. i.
To become or grow flat, even depressed dull, vapid,
spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
flatten
v 1: make flat or flatter; "flatten a road", "flatten your
stomach with these exercises"
2: become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened" [syn: {flatten
out}]
3: lower the pitch of (musical notes) [syn: {drop}] [ant: {sharpen}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
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."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
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."
[{Jargon File}]
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