'Flattened' definitions:
Definition of 'Flattened'
From: 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]
Definition of 'flattened'
From: 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]