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• flatten: vt. To remove structural information, esp.
  o filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leave...
• flat-file: adj. A {flatten}ed representation of some database or tree or network structure as a single file from which the structure could implicitly be rebuilt, esp.
  one in {flat-ASCII} form. See also {sharchive}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• flat-file adj. A flattened representation of some database or tree or network structure as a single file from which the structure could implicitly be rebuilt, esp.
  one in flat-ASCII form. See also sharchive....
• dike vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
  A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out"....
• dike: vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
  A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out"....
• flat adj. 1. [common] Lacking any complex internal structure.
  That bitty box has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one....
• massage vt. [common] Vague term used to describe `smooth' transformations of a data set into a different form, esp.
  ansformations that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than munch or crunch....
• brain-dead adj. [common] Brain-damaged in the extreme.
  It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity....
• munge /muhnj/ vt. 1. [derogatory] To imperfectly transform information.
  2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole program....