3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: flattened \flattened\ adj. 1. shaped like a thin sheet. Syn: planate. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] 2. (Biol) flattened laterally along the whole length e.g. certain leafstalks or flatfishes. Syn: compressed, flat. [WordNet 1.5] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit. [1913 Webster] 3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: flattened adj : having been flattened [syn: {planate}]
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