0 present participle of flatten --
2 to become level and thinner or to cause something to become level and thinner: --
In this study, flattening and re-ridging land after early-season legume harvest to enable maize planting was labour consuming.
The first flattening rule gives the previously discussed binding-time improvements.
We interpret the flexure as a taphonomic feature related to flattening, which arguably is supporting evidence for the frond being trough-shaped in life.
However, this possibility is confounded by the "flattening" of the hierarchy.
We will now extend the standard way of flattening the categories of algebras indexed by signatures to the computation algebras and their distributions.
Many structural events are associated with compaction, including blastomere polarisation, blastomere flattening and gap junction formation.
However, flattening terms with nested function symbols would imply a serious loss of precision.
From the discovery of gold in 1851, the lower bound increased steadily before flattening in the 1870s.
