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noun

flatness

the property of having two dimensions

In a sentence

Six example sentences with flatness, each labelled with its topic.

  • Modernist painters embraced the flatness of the canvas instead of pretending a window opened onto a distant field.

    Art

  • A long lens compresses the hills into a strange flatness, as though the ridges were cut from paper.

    Photography

  • Early arcade sprites owed their charm to sheer flatness, since every character was a picture pinned to the screen.

    Gaming

  • The studio kept the flatness of hand drawn cels on purpose, refusing the depth that computer rendering would have added.

    Movies

  • Flat design leaned into the flatness of the screen, stripping away the fake shadows and bevels of earlier interfaces.

    Technology

  • The facade's flatness is total, a single sheet of pale stone with no cornice or ledge to cast a shadow.

    Architecture

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