layer
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
layer/ˈleɪə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a sheet or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body.
- 2 a person or thing that lays something.
- 3 a shoot fastened down to take root while attached to the parent plant.
- 1 arrange or cut in a layer or layers.
- 2 propagate (a plant) as a layer.
'layer' also found in these Oxford entries:
adventitia
- air bearing
- air cushion
- altocumulus
- altostratus
- anodize
- armour
- asthenosphere
- backing
- bed
- bedding
- bed joint
- blanket
- bloom
- boundary layer
- brake lining
- calyx
- canopy
- carpet
- ceiling
- cement
- CFC
- choroid
- chromosphere
- cirrocumulus
- cirrostratus
- coat
- coating
- cork
- cork oak
- cornea
- cortex
- course
- cover
- crust
- cryptogamic
- cuticle
- damp course
- decidua
- deposit
- dermis
- desquamate
- detrusor
- disc
- D-layer
- down
- ectoderm
- ectomorph
- ectoplasm
- eggshell
