flatten
IPA: fɫˈætʌn
verb
- (transitive) To make something flat or flatter.
- (reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
- (transitive) To knock down or lay low.
- (intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
- (intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.
- (music) To lower by a semitone.
- To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
- (programming, transitive) To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
- (computer graphics, transitive) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
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Examples of "flatten" in Sentences
- I mean, we have to kind of flatten out our icons, and for some reason we like our women tragic.
- But I'm also interested in how it can potentially 'flatten' the very flavors that make each culture unique.
- Brown said that he is rethinking the structure of the Governor's Office, hoping to "flatten" it and make it more supple.
- Even in composing arrays, you need to first compose it the way you would in perl and then call the flatten method on that list in order to make it what you want.
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