meaning of flatten
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. To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
5. To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
6. 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] flat thunk
7. lower the pitch of musical notes
Related Words
flatten | flatten out | flattened | flattening |
