"flatten the curve" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: flattens the curve [present, singular, third-person], flattening the curve [participle, present], flattened the curve [participle, past], flattened the curve [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} flatten the curve (third-person singular simple present flattens the curve, present participle flattening the curve, simple past and past participle flattened the curve)
  1. (epidemiology, colloquial) To reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic, decreasing the number of active cases at any given time by increasing the period of time over which numbers of similar cases occur. Wikipedia link: en:flatten the curve Tags: colloquial Categories (topical): Coronavirus, Epidemiology Related terms: curve flattening Coordinate_terms: social distancing (english: a measure used to flatten the curve), raise the line (english: to take measures to increase healthcare capacity) Translations (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic): aplanar la corba (Catalan), 壓平曲線 (Chinese Mandarin), 压平曲线 (yāpíng qūxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), flade kurven ud (Danish), madaltaa käyrää (Finnish), aplatir la courbe (French), მრუდის გაბრტყელება (mrudis gabrṭq̇eleba) (Georgian), datarkan keluk (Malay), landaikan keluk (Malay), aplanar la curva (Spanish), platta ut kurvan (Swedish), platta till kurvan (Swedish), san phẳng đường cong (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-flatten_the_curve-en-verb-gfHXE6Xp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations Topics: epidemiology, medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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