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flatten the curve en · VERB

Meanings

1. (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.
   • It is possible that these measures could have started to flatten the curve of deaths before the effects of the wider lockdown were visible. 2020 April 6, Robert Cuffe, Christine Jeavans, “Coronavirus: When will we know if the UK lockdown is working?”, in BBC News:

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social distancing · raise the line

Relateds

curve flattening

Translations (12)

ms landaikan keluk (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · fi madaltaa käyrää (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · es aplanar la curva (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · ca aplanar la corba (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · ms datarkan keluk (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · ka მრუდის გაბრტყელება (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · sv platta ut kurvan (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · vi san phẳng đường cong (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · fr aplatir la courbe (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · cmn 壓平曲線 /压平曲线 (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · da flade kurven ud (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) · sv platta till kurvan (to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic)