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 Flat·ten v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening.]
 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. 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·ting n.
 1. The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.
 2. A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.
 3. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
 4. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.
 Flatting coat, a coat of paint so put on as to have no gloss.
 Flatting furnace. Same as flattening oven, under Flatten.
 Flatting mill. (a) A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the mill producing the ribbon from which the planchets are punched. (b) A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation.
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