layer

Roget-categorie 204

2. Words relating to space
› 2.2. Dimensions
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#204. Layer

zelfstandig naamwoord

layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment — table, tablet — dess^† — flagstone — board, plank — trencher, platter.
plate — lamina, lamella — sheet, foil — wafer — scale, flake, peel — coat, pellicle — membrane, film — leaf — slice, shive^†, cut, rasher, shaving, integument etc. (covering) 223 — eschar^†.
stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion.
monolayer — bilayer — trilayer [Bioch.].

werkwoord

slice, shave, pare, peel — delaminate — plate, coat, veneer — cover etc. 223.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

lamellar, lamellated^†, lamelliform^†, layered — laminated, laminiferous^† — micaceous^† — schistose, schistous^† — scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous [Anat.] — foliated, foliaceous^† — stratified, stratiform — tabular, discoid — spathic^†, spathose^†.
trilamellar^†.
graphitic^†.

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