Flatten may refer to: * Flat-ten engine, an engine with two banks of five opposing cylinders each *

Svein Flåtten Svein Flåtten (born 14 October 1944 in Andebu) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Vestfold in 2001, and has been re-elected on one occasion. Flåtten was a member of the execut ...

, Norwegian politician *

Mount Flatten "Upsidaisium" is the first story arc from the second season of ''Rocky and His Friends''. With 36 segments it was the second-longest of all Rocky and Bullwinkle story arcs, and concerns Rocky and Bullwinkle's efforts to reclaim Bullwinkle's Uncle' ...

, mountain in the animated television series ''The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show'' *

Flattening Flattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid) respectively. Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness. The usual notation for flattening is ...

, the compression of a circle or sphere into an ellipse or an ellipsoid *

Flattening of affect Reduced affect display, sometimes referred to as emotional blunting or emotional numbing, is a condition of reduced emotional reactivity in an individual. It manifests as a failure to express feelings ( affect display) either verbally or nonverba ...

, 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 Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and ga ...

, 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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