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Definition of Flattens
1. flatten [v] - See also: flatten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flattens
Literary usage of Flattens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1893)
"When first laid the egg-shell is quite soft and readily flattens upon contact
with other eggs, or the leaf upon which it is laid, so that it is usually ..."
2. A Discourse of the Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science by Baron Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1828)
"takes a contrary direction, and the curve gradually flattens as it had bulged;
till, in the same number of years which it took to bulge, it becomes as flat ..."
3. Sound: A Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the by Alfred Marshall Mayer (1879)
"1 to rest and flattens No. 3, as shown in Fig. 31. Ball No. 3 now springs back
into its spherical form, and in doing so acts on No. 2 and brings it to rest, ..."
4. Studies from the Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge by University of Cambridge Morphological laboratory, Adam Sedgwick, Francis Maitland Balfour (1886)
"The plate of cells in the Mole flattens out again, while in the Field Mouse ...
In the Rabbit the solid inner mass flattens out and remains on the surface ..."
5. A Description of the Region about Camp Dodge by Iowa Geological Survey, James Henry Lees (1918)
"The view shows the typical level topography of the Wisconsin drift- plain and
the very gentle slope of the east wall of Beaver valley which flattens out in ..."
6. War Cyclopedia: A Handbook for Ready Reference on the Great War by Frederic Logan Paxson, Guy Stanton Ford (1918)
"... probably without great warrant on either side, for the regulation bullet at
close range often flattens, producing wounds of the dum-dum type. ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1880)
"This heats and flattens it by 2 or 3 beats in 10 seconds. ... In tuning, the file
heats and flattens; the result, therefore, can seldom be known for a day ..."
8. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The valve system of the Saxhorn is arranged in such manner that the depression
of tlie second valve flattens the pitch a semitone, tlie depression of the ..."
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