Platte

n : a river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a

tributary of the Missouri River [syn: {Platte}, {Platte

River}]

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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