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Definition of Flatting

1. n. The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.

Definition of Flatting

1. Noun. (Australia New Zealand) The practice of living, with others, in a flat. ¹

2. Noun. A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint. ¹

3. Noun. The process of applying a coating of '''flatting''' paint. ¹

4. Noun. A flat part of something, a flattening. ¹

5. Noun. The process of becoming flat. ¹

6. Noun. The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something. ¹

7. Noun. An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended. ¹

8. Verb. (present participle of flat) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flatting

1. flat [v] - See also: flat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatting

Literary usage of Flatting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Walter Rogers Johnson, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1849)
"Such a cylinder is now placed on a flatting-stone with a convex surface, ... 40, in and iv, are elevations of two end views of the flatting- furnace; ..."

2. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Walter Rogers Johnson (1849)
"Such a cylinder is now placed on a flatting-stone with a convex surface, ... 40, in and iv, are elevations of two end views of the flatting- furnace; ..."

3. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines by Cornelius Beringer, John Jacob Beringer (1906)
"flatting.—Small buttons, such as are got in assaying most gold ores, ... In bullion assays the flatting of the buttons requires care and practice for its ..."

4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1817)
"flatting THE HEAD. The most distinguishing part of their physiognomy, is the peculiar flatness and width of their forehead, a peculiarity which they owe to ..."

5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1817)
"flatting THE HEAD. The most distinguishing part of their physiognomy, is the peculiar flatness and width of their forehead, a peculiarity which they owe to ..."

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