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5 definitions found 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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