flattening
present participle of flatten
flattening (plural flattenings)
The act, or the result of making something flat of flatter
A flattened part of something
The Earth is a sphere that has flattenings at the poles.
Source: Wiktionary
Flat"ten, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening.] Etym: [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.)
Definition: 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.
Flat"ten, v. i.
Definition: To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
