flat-file
= F =
flavor
flatten vt.
[common] To remove structural information,
esp. to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a
simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to
flat-ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with
parentheses into an equivalent canonical form."
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.