FLATTENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flattened mean? 

• FLATTENED (adjective)
  The adjective FLATTENED has 1 sense:

1. having been flattened

  Familiarity information: FLATTENED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLATTENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been flattened

Synonyms:

flattened; planate

Similar:

planar; two-dimensional (involving or having two dimensions)

 Context examples 

One of the flattened membrane-bound regions of the rough endoplasmic reticulum.

(Cisterna of the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum, NCI Thesaurus)

This he carefully opened out and flattened on the table.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Brown!" His voice rang out sharply, and at the sound the dog's ears flattened down as to a caress. "Gee!" The dog made a swinging turn to the right.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A bone that has a thin and flattened shape.

(Flat Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition in which one or more of the arches of the foot have flattened out.

(Flat Foot, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A flattened non-neuronal cell surrounding a ganglion cell.

(Perineuronal Satellite Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

They enclose a flattened sac and are connected at the nuclear pore sites.

(Nuclear Inner Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

A stack of flattened vesicles located between the nucleus and the secretory pole or surface of a cell.

(Golgi Apparatus, NCI Thesaurus)

When all were safely down they picked up the Scarecrow, whose body was quite flattened out, and patted his straw into shape again.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He never took his eyes from the god, thrusting his head forward with ears flattened back and hair involuntarily rising and cresting on his neck.

(White Fang, by Jack London)