flatting

The practice of living, with others, in a flat.

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,[…].”

The process of applying a coating of flatting paint.

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.

The process of becoming flat.