1.
[syn: planate, flattened]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
flattened \flattened\ adj.
1. shaped like a thin sheet.
Syn: planate.
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2. (Biol) flattened laterally along the whole length e.g.
certain leafstalks or flatfishes.
Syn: compressed, flat.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flatten \Flat"ten\ (fl[a^]t"t'n), 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.
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2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate;
hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
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3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
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4. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less
sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flattened
adj 1: having been flattened [syn: planate, flattened]