flatness
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- noun
- /ˈflæt.nəs/
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planitud
- The artist praised the flatness of the canvas, appreciating its simplicity without distractions.
- literal flatness
- flatness versus height
- flatness problem
Yeah, we also focus to keep the perfect, perfect flatness.
- Yeah, we also focus to keep the perfect, perfect flatness.
- The line up will include three separate versions with varying levels of flatness on the base.
- It's just to create dimensions so that there's not so much flatness with the foundation that it's more multidimensional.
Examples
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I checked the boards for flatness and two were pretty twisted.
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At night, Florida recovers something of its old subtropical self, before men tamed its teeming flatness.
Fiction book (1990) -
We can see straight out over a wet, green flatness for a long way to where it ends.
Fiction book (2002) -
The line up will include three separate versions with varying levels of flatness on the base.
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But for the most part, the landscape was the same unbroken flatness.
Fiction book (1999) -
Dorcas kept looking over her shoulder, seeing nothing but a vast black flatness and the tiny lights of the pub.
Fiction book (1998) -
At the required high degree of flatness, precautions against adhesive sticking will have to be taken.
Academic text (1995) -
Scrubby brush, thornbush, humble in its need for existence, gripped the earth, breaking the undulating flatness.
Fiction book (1996) -
The flatness of the landscape made it easy to see for miles without any hills blocking the view.
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She noted the flatness of the dough after rolling it out, ensuring it would bake evenly.
Synonyms
Something flat like a picture that has length and width but no depth
The state of being flat like a smooth level surface
Being flat and existing on a single surface, like a table top
How flat and even a surface is
Antonyms
How Flat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flatness comes from the adjective flat plus the ending -ness, and flat originally comes from an old Scandinavian word meaning 'level' or 'spread out'. So, flatness is the 'state of being flat', which fits the idea of a surface with no height or depth.