flattening
present participle offlatten
| 单词 | flattening |
| 释义 | flattening present participle offlatten flatten verb[IorT] uk/ˈflæt.ən/us/ˈflæt̬.ən/flattenverb[I or T](BECOME LEVEL)C2 tobecomelevelorcausesomething tobecomelevel: Severaltreeswere flattened(=knockeddown)by thestorm. Thepathflattens(out)(= does not go up so much)as itreachesthetopof thehill. tostoprising,falling, orchangingsoquickly, or to make therateofchangeslower: Television adrateshave flattened, if notdeclinedslightly. In the lastdecadewesawsmokingratesflattenoutanddecline. The use of aretardantcoatingon thesurfaceof thepowderslowstheinitialburnrateand flattensouttherateofchange. flatten the curve to make therateofchangeslowerfor something that might beshownas alineon agraph,especiallyto make theincreasein therateofinfectionsslowerwhen adiseaseisspreading: Thesepublichealthmeasuresaredesignedto flatten thecurvein thespreadof thedisease. Preventing ahealthcaresystemfrom beingoverwhelmedin anepidemicrequiresasocietyto "flatten thecurve" - that is,slowtherateofinfectionso there aren't too manycasesthat needhospitalizationat onetime. Thissortofbankinglowerslong-terminterestrates; it flattens thecurve.
Making things more or less smooth or straight
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Keeping and staying the same Change and changes flattenverb[I or T](MAKE THINNER)C2 tobecomelevelandthinneror tocausesomething tobecomelevelandthinner: Flatten thepastryinto athindiscwithyourhands. Thebiscuitswill flatten out as theycook. Making things more or less smooth or straight
Examplesofflatteningflattening In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Theflatteningand unflattening functions are mutually recursive. From theCambridge English Corpus An alternative approach that avoids the use of an indexing operation works by building a perfect tree, and thenflatteningit into a list. From theCambridge English Corpus Unlikeflatteningconditionals and eliminating common subexpressions, transforming a loop to precompute all conditions is not possible for all loops. From theCambridge English Corpus This approach also provides a notion offlatteningfor hierarchical graphs and hierarchical rules similar to ours. From theCambridge English Corpus During specialization, unfolding a call may exposeflatteningopportunities that are not apparent in the source program. From theCambridge English Corpus With progressive growth of the quartz fibres, folding also continued and homogeneousflatteningstrain was superposed on the earlier strain. From theCambridge English Corpus The size of the tip afterflatteningwas 0.30 mm. From theCambridge English Corpus From the discovery of gold in 1851, the lower bound increased steadily beforeflatteningin the 1870s. From theCambridge English Corpus However,flatteningterms with nested function symbols would imply a serious loss of precision. From theCambridge English Corpus Many structural events are associated with compaction, including blastomere polarisation, blastomereflatteningand gap junction formation. From theCambridge English Corpus We will now extend the standard way offlatteningthe categories of algebras indexed by signatures to the computation algebras and their distributions. From theCambridge English Corpus However, this possibility is confounded by the "flattening" of the hierarchy. From theCambridge English Corpus We interpret the flexure as a taphonomic feature related toflattening, which arguably is supporting evidence for the frond being trough-shaped in life. From theCambridge English Corpus The firstflatteningrule gives the previously discussed binding-time improvements. From theCambridge English Corpus In this study,flatteningand re-ridging land after early-season legume harvest to enable maize planting was labour consuming. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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