Crossword clues for flattening
flattening
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flatten \Flat"ten\ (fl[a^]t"t'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening.] [From Flat, a.]
To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
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(Mus.) 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act, or the result of making something flat of flatter 2 A flattened part of something vb. (present participle of flatten English)
Wikipedia
Flattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution ( spheroid) respectively. Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness. The usual notation for flattening is f and its definition in terms of the semi-axes of the resulting ellipse or ellipsoid is
$\mathrm{flattening} = f =\frac {a - b}{a}.$The compression factor is b/a in each case. For the ellipse, this factor is also the aspect ratio of the ellipse.
There are two other variants of flattening (see below) and when it is necessary to avoid confusion the above flattening is called the first flattening. The following definitions may be found in standard texts and online web texts
Usage examples of "flattening".
The land was flattening out, old road turning north to follow the course of the Bamingui River, not far above where it runs into the Bahr al-Aouk.
The Denarian spat out what I took to be an oath, and I felt that lionlike foot land in the middle of my back, flattening me to the floor, claws digging into my skin.
A powder-blue waistcoat buttoned across her breasts, flattening them, and the new white tiewig covering her own dark locks was fitted on.
I tightened them and I thought that as she breathed her bulges were flattening.
Interiors deal with degrees of intentions, not extensions, and trying to convert all evolutionary changes into physical size is simply part of the flattening of the Kosmos, part of the brutalization of qualitative distinctions, that has marked the instrumentalism of all flatland ontologies.
Whether from reflex or design, most mature men and little boys had ducked for cover, flattening themselves to the pavement or rolling into doorways and underneath parked cars.
This would also alert the few American rocketships that might be in the air, which instantly would duck to cover either through forest clearings or by flattening down to earth in green fields where their coloring would probably protect them from observation.
The young mage edged to the left, away from the huge guard, flattening himself against the paneled wall that adjoined the door, hoping his shields would suffice in the dim light.
Its curvature was flattening out, edges merging with distance, cloudscape expanding into an unending plane.
Evelyn sent the bulges bouncing, now up to the slave number, the black VII, on the chest, now across to the sweating armpits, and then flattening them, driving the teats, areoles and rings into the blue-veined flesh.
I watched the rising wind blowing the grass in flattening ripples across the course, and heard the distant voices of the bookmakers as they shouted the odds for the next race.
Flattening to the three-inch oak slabs, he could hear, with the hyperacute senses of a wizard, the insectile scratching of broomstraw and holystone beyond, the whisper of a voice speaking words of dissolution, of breaking.
You can fuck around with masculinity and femininity by heightening them, by flattening them, by caricaturing them, by placing them ostentatiously in quotation marks, or by crossing or conflating them in ways that violently flout our usual expectations.
Then, powered by hysterical energy, she conjured another massive weight of material right on top of it, flattening the creature against the ground.
Flattening against the door, the corporal snapped a salute as Allerton and Msuya strode past him into the room.