flatten : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: flatten	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for flatten
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flatten v make flat or flatter; "flatten a road"; "flatten your stomach with these exercises" become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened" Synonym(s): flatten, flatten out lower the pitch of (musical notes) Synonym(s): flatten, drop Antonym(s): sharpen
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 Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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 (15Feb98) [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}]