Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make level; reduce to an even surface.
  • Flattened; made level, or with a smooth surface.
  • In botany, lying in one plane: applied to leaves, especially of mosses.
  • In entomology, appearing as if flattened by pressure: applied to plane surfaces continuous with higher and convex or irregular parts: as, a complanate margin or disk in a convex pronotum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Flattened to a level surface.
  • transitive verb rare To make level.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To make level.

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