flattop

n 1: a closely cropped haircut; usually for men [syn: {crew cut}]

2: a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck

for take-offs and landings [syn: {aircraft carrier}, {carrier},

{attack aircraft carrier}]

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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