flatting

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The practice of living, with others, in a flat.

2. (countable) A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint.

3. The process of applying a coating of flatting paint.

4. (countable) A flat part of something, a flattening.

5. The process of becoming flat.

6. The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something.

- flatting-mill

7. (countable) An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended.

8. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.

9. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rollers.

verb

1. present participle of flat