Flatten may refer to: *

Flat-ten engine A flat-ten engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-ten, is a ten-cylinder piston engine with five cylinders on each side of a central crankshaft. There are no known flat-ten engines which reached production. In the early 1960s, Chevrolet bui ...

, an engine with two banks of five opposing cylinders each * Svein Flåtten, Norwegian politician * Mount Flatten, 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 i ...

, the compression of a circle or sphere into an ellipse or an ellipsoid * Flattening of affect, loss or lack of emotional expressiveness *

Flattening the curve Flattening the curve was a public health strategy to slow down the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The curve being flattened is the epidemic curve, a visual representation of the number of infec ...

, 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 g ...

, changing the slope or grade of land; levelling *

Flat-file database A flat-file database is a database stored in a file called a flat file. Records follow a uniform format, and there are no structures for indexing or recognizing relationships between records. The file is simple. A flat file can be a plain ...

, a database file format where there are no structures for indexing or recognizing relationships between records; flattened

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