| 词汇 | flattening |
| 释义 | flattening present participle offlatten flatten verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈflæt.ən/ us /ˈflæt̬.ən/ flattenverb[I or T] (BECOME LEVEL)C2 to become level or cause something to become level: （使）变平，把…弄平 Several trees were flattened (= knocked down) by the storm.暴风雨把几棵大树刮倒了。 flatten outThe path flattens out (= does not go up so much) as it reaches the top of the hill.到达山顶时，这条小路变得平坦了。 After two short climbs the road flattens. The landscape was flattening out as the canal grew narrower. to stop rising, falling, or changing so quickly, or to make the rate of change slower: Television ad rates have flattened, if not declined slightly. In the last decade we saw smoking rates flatten out and decline. flatten outThe use of a retardant coating on the surface of the powder slows the initial burn rate and flattens out the rate of change. flatten the curve to make the rate of change slower for something that might be shown as a line on a graph, especially to make the increase in the rate of infections slower when a disease is spreading: These public health measures are designed to flatten the curve in the spread of the disease. He was immediately flattened by a single punch to the head. The whole area was flattened in the bombing raid - not a building was left standing. After a few hundred yards, you come to an area where the ground flattens out. That tent is not secure, you know. The first gust of wind will flatten it. A fight broke out and we had to grab Kevin to stop him flattening the other guy. Making things more or less smooth or straight bunch bunch (something) up coarsen coarsening creased crinkle fold folding furl grooming interfold isolator pucker rumple sand sandpaper screw sleek sleek back/down wrinkle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Keeping and staying the same flattenverb[I or T] (MAKE THINNER)C2 to become level and thinner or to cause something to become level and thinner: （使）变平坦；（使）变薄 Flatten the pastry into a thin disc with your hands.用手把油酥面团压成薄圆片。 The biscuits will flatten out as they cook.烘烤时饼干会变得扁平。 Making things more or less smooth or straight bunch bunch (something) up coarsen coarsening creased crinkle fold folding furl grooming interfold isolator pucker rumple sand sandpaper screw sleek sleek back/down wrinkle Examples of flatteningflattening In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The flattening and unflattening functions are mutually recursive. An alternative approach that avoids the use of an indexing operation works by building a perfect tree, and then flattening it into a list. Unlike flattening conditionals and eliminating common subexpressions, transforming a loop to precompute all conditions is not possible for all loops. This approach also provides a notion of flattening for hierarchical graphs and hierarchical rules similar to ours. During specialization, unfolding a call may expose flattening opportunities that are not apparent in the source program. With progressive growth of the quartz fibres, folding also continued and homogeneous flattening strain was superposed on the earlier strain. The size of the tip after flattening was 0.30 mm. From the discovery of gold in 1851, the lower bound increased steadily before flattening in the 1870s. However, flattening terms with nested function symbols would imply a serious loss of precision. Many structural events are associated with compaction, including blastomere polarisation, blastomere flattening and gap junction formation. We will now extend the standard way of flattening the categories of algebras indexed by signatures to the computation algebras and their distributions. However, this possibility is confounded by the "flattening" of the hierarchy. We interpret the flexure as a taphonomic feature related to flattening, which arguably is supporting evidence for the frond being trough-shaped in life. The first flattening rule gives the previously discussed binding-time improvements. In this study, flattening and re-ridging land after early-season legume harvest to enable maize planting was labour consuming. 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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