flatting

Meanings

1. The practice of living, with others, in a flat.
2. 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. 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.
7. 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.

1. present participle and gerund of flat

Etymology

From flat + -ing.