What does flatten mean?
Definitions for flatten
ˈflæt nflat·ten
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word flatten.
Princeton's WordNet
flattenverb
make flat or flatter
"flatten a road"; "flatten your stomach with these exercises"
flatten, flatten outverb
become flat or flatter
"The landscape flattened"
flatten, dropverb
lower the pitch of (musical notes)
Wiktionary
flattenverb
To make something flat or flatter.
flattenverb
To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
flattenverb
To knock down or lay low.
The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.
flattenverb
To become flat or flatter.
flattenverb
To be knocked down or laid low.
flattenverb
To lower by a semitone.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Flattenverb
Etymology: flatir, French, from flat.
If they should lie in it, and beat it down, or flatten it, it will rise again. John Mortimer, Husbandry.
To Flattenverb
Here joys that endure for ever, fresh and in vigour, are opposed to satisfactions that are attended with satiety and surfeits, and flatten in the very tasting. Roger L'Estrange, Fable 161.
ChatGPT
flatten
To flatten means to make or become flat or flatter. In the context of digital technology, it refers to converting a multi-level data structure into a single-level one. For imaging software, it could mean to merge multiple layers of an image into a single layer. The term can be used in various fields such as mathematics, computing, and others with different nuances of meanings, but the central concept remains the same, reducing multi-dimensional aspects to a singular, simple, or less complex form.
Webster Dictionary
Flattenadjective
to reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane
Flattenadjective
to throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit
Flattenadjective
to make vapid or insipid; to render stale
Flattenadjective
to lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch
Flattenverb
to become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch
Etymology: [From Flat, a.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
flatten
[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.”
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
FLATTEN
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Flatten is ranked #60790 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Flatten surname appeared 331 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Flatten.
97.5% or 323 total occurrences were White.
1.5% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flatten in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flatten in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of flatten in a Sentence
Chinese oil demand growth, the largest single contributor to world oil demand growth, may begin to flatten more quickly than some long-term projections indicate, this could result in world oil demand growth falling from its 2000-2016 trend of 1.1 million bpd year-on-year to only 800,000 bpd ... by 2024.
The amount of pent-up demand is slowly being unwound and over the next year it is probably going to result in one the strongest growth in 20 years and markets are pricing that in, right now, it’s a race between cases and the vaccine and the vaccine will ultimately win out and the curve will flatten out.
The government warned it would flatten Sur and build a new city in its place with apartment blocks and shopping malls.
This good work cant stop here, though. It is critical that we further open opportunities for those on private insurance to see medical professionals including nurses and physicians assistantsto practice telemedicine without being confined to the borders of their own state, if we want to flatten the curve, its going to take all hands on deck.
California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis:
The governor brought together experts to really try to understand if we flatten our curve, if we do all of this social distancing and stay at home how should we be thinking about what to prepare for.
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- سطحArabic
- изравнявам, просвам, изглаждамBulgarian
- planejarCatalan, Valencian
- zploštit se, rozdrtit, uzemnit, zploštit, zplacatit se, splácnout, splácnout se, srazit k zemi, zplacatitCzech
- jævneDanish
- plätten, flachmachen, plattmachenGerman
- achatar, aplanarSpanish
- صاف کردنPersian
- tasoittaa, litistääFinnish
- aplatirFrench
- presegarIdo
- appiattire, appiattirsi, atterrareItalian
- whakatūpā, takapapaMāori
- aandrukken, plettenDutch
- położyć, kłaść, równać, wyrównać, wyrównać się, zwalać, spłaszczyć, zwalić, spłaszczyć sięPolish
- derrubar, achatarPortuguese
- nivela, netezi, aplatizaRomanian
- раската́ть, раска́тывать, разма́зать, расплю́щить, разгла́живать, плю́щить, расплю́щивать, разгла́дитьRussian
- platta tillSwedish
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