flatness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English flatnesse, equivalent to flat + -ness.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
flatness (countable and uncountable, plural flatnesses)
- The state of being flat
- 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
- The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs.
- The state of being two-dimensional; planar : planarity
- The state of being bland : dullness
- Mattness, the quality of a painted surface which scatters or absorbs the light falling on it, so as to be substantially free from gloss or sheen
- (oenology) Lack of bouquet and freshness of a wine, through too much aeration or infection with film yeasts
- (statistics) slim-tailedness or platykurticity
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
state of being flat
state of being planar
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state of being bland
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lack of bouquet
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slim-tailedness
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