English Dictionary
fatten
v : make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving
child" [syn: {fat}, {flesh out}, {fill out}, {plump}, {plump
out}, {fatten out}, {fatten up}]
English Computing Dictionary
flatten
To remove structural information, especially to filter
something with an implicit tree structure into a simple
sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to
{flat ASCII}. "This code flattens an expression with
parentheses into an equivalent {canonical} form."
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