Definitions for flatten
ˈflæt nflat·ten

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flattenverb

   make flat or flatter

   "flatten a road"; "flatten your stomach with these exercises"

2. flatten, flatten outverb

   become flat or flatter

   "The landscape flattened"

3. flatten, dropverb

   lower the pitch of (musical notes)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flattenverb

   To make something flat or flatter.

2. 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.

3. flattenverb

   To knock down or lay low.

   The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.

4. flattenverb

   To become flat or flatter.

5. flattenverb

   To be knocked down or laid low.

6. flattenverb

   To lower by a semitone.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Flattenverb

   Etymology: flatir, French, from flat.

   1. To make even or level, without prominence or elevation.2. To beat down to the ground.

   If they should lie in it, and beat it down, or flatten it, it will rise again. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   3. To make vapid.4. To deject; to depress; to dispirit.

2. To Flattenverb

   1. To grow even or level.2. To grow dull and insipid.

   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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Flattenadjective

   to reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane

2. Flattenadjective

   to throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit

3. Flattenadjective

   to make vapid or insipid; to render stale

4. Flattenadjective

   to lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch

5. Flattenverb

   to become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch

6. Etymology: [From Flat, a.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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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How to pronounce flatten?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of flatten in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of flatten in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of flatten in a Sentence

1. 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.

2. Yousef Abbasi:

   My big hang-up here is when the curve does start to flatten, that doesn't mean we can return to normal human and economic behavior, if we do return to normal human and economic behavior, we risk the chance the curve goes parabolic again. Just from the perspective of how long this potentially can last, there's still a great deal of uncertainty.

3. Rebecca Siegel:

   The continued decline in the cancer death rate over the past 25 years is really good news and was a little bit of a surprise, only because the other leading causes of death in the US are starting to flatten. So we've been wondering if that's going to happen for cancer as well, but so far it hasn't.

4. United States:

   It's very, very important, again, that we do what the professionals are telling us to do, which is flatten that curve, take all the appropriate measures for United States in the military.

5. Jennifer Aniston:

   BUT still, there are many people in our country refusing to take the necessary steps to flatten the curve, and keep each other safe, people seem worried about their rights being taken away by being asked to wear a mask. This simple and effective recommendation is being politicized at the expense of peoples lives.And it really shouldnt be a debate.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=flatten
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Flatten
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=flatten
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flatten
6. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Flatten
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html