flattings

Noun

flatting (usually uncountable, plural flattings)

1. (New Zealand, usually) The practice of living, with others, in a flat.
2. (countable, usually) A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint.
   • Bankart is of opinion that “an important point as regards painters on board ship is to recognize the fact that there is danger of poisoning, whenever quick-drying paints and flattings are being used in inclosed spaces,[…].”1915, United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, United States Naval Medical Bulletin, page 694
3. (usually) The process of applying a coating of flatting paint.
4. (countable, usually) A flat part of something, a flattening.
   • I have been informed, that there are some tribes in whom the posterior part of the head is flattened instead of the front part, and that these depressions and flattings of the head are produced by such artificial pressure.1825, The Lancet, volume 7, page 73
5. (usually) The process of becoming flat.
6. (usually) The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something.
   • flatting-mill

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