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ˈflattening, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action or process of making flat. In Glass-making, the process of laying out (sheet-glass) flat.
1879J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. X. 660/2 The opening, flattening, or spreading of the glass. Ibid. 661/1.
2. The process of becoming flat; the condition of being flattened.
1726Monro Anat. ii. 199 This Flatning on their Sides..is of good Use. 1854W. K. Kelly tr. Arago's Astron. 131 The flattening at the poles [of the earth]. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxiv. 359 These disks [in ice] have been mistaken for bubbles..and their flattening has been ascribed to the pressure [etc.]. 1878Huxley Physiogr. xix. 325 The earth's flattening is very much less proportionally than that of the orange.
3. attrib. and Comb. (chiefly in Glass-making: see 1), as flattening arch, flattening furnace, flattening iron, flattening kiln, flattening oven, flattening stone, flattening tool.
1879J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. X. 661/2 The waggon then goes back to the *flattening arch.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 878/2 *Flattening-furnace.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Flattening-iron, a laundress's or workman's smoothing iron. 1872W. R. Greg Enigmas 272 That..God will pass a flattening-iron over all..and smooth out every salient individuality.
1879J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. X. 661/2 The *flattening kiln..consists of two chambers built together, the one for flattening the cylinders, the other for annealing the sheets..The cylinder, after being gradually reheated, is placed in the centre of the *flattening oven, upon a smooth stone.
Ibid., The *flattening stone or table, mounted on a movable waggon. |