Flattening - Wikipedia Flattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid) respectively Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness
Definition of flattening - Words Defined In mathematics, particularly in geometry and calculus, "flattening" refers to the process of reducing the dimensions of a shape: Dimensional Reduction: In statistics, data often undergoes flattening to reduce complexity (for example, transforming a 3D point cloud into a 2D projection)
flattening - WordReference. com Dictionary of English to (cause to) become flat: [~ (+ out) + object] Flatten (out) the pizza dough with your hands [~ (+ out)] They flattened (out) against the wall and strained to see who was coming to knock down:[~ + object] The bulldozer flattened the barn to make flat to knock down: The boxer flattened his opponent in the second round to become flat