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 Definitions for layer: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Layer \Lay"er\, n. [See Lay to cause to lie flat.]
1. One who, or that which, lays.
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2. [Prob. a corruption of lair.] That which is laid; a
stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over
another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a
layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
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3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock,
laid under ground for growth or propagation.
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4. An artificial oyster bed.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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layer
n 1: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
"slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: bed]
2: a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or
under another
3: an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good
actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at
least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many
strata simultaneously" [syn: level, stratum]
4: a hen that lays eggs
5: thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
v : make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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28 Moby Thesaurus words for "layer":
Appleton layer, F layer, Heaviside-Kennelly layer, Van Allen belt,
arrange in layers, belt, bookie, chemosphere, delaminate,
desquamate, exfoliate, flake, ionosphere, isothermal region,
laminate, lay down, lay up, lower atmosphere, outer atmosphere,
photosphere, scale, stratify, stratosphere, stratum,
substratosphere, tropopause, troposphere, upper atmosphere
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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layer
protocol layer
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