Flatten

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Flatten may refer to:

  • Amy Flatten, American expert on international scientific collaboration and abstract oil painter
  • Flat-ten engine, an engine with two banks of five opposing cylinders each
  • Svein Flåtten, Norwegian politician
  • Mount Flatten, mountain in the animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
  • Flattening, the compression of a circle or sphere into an ellipse or an ellipsoid
  • Flattening of affect, loss or lack of emotional expressiveness
  • Flattening the curve, a technique to slow spread of a pathogen in order to minimize peak demand on healthcare resources
  • Regrading, changing the slope or grade of land; levelling
  • Flat-file database, a database file format where there are no structures for indexing or recognizing relationships between records; flattened

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