Dictionary Definition
layer
Noun
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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪə(r)
Noun
Derived terms
Translations
single thickness of some material covering a
surface
deposit
- Czech: vrstva
- Dutch: laag
- Finnish: kerros, kerrostuma
- German: Schicht
person who lays things, such as tiles
- Dutch: legger
- Finnish: -mies (e.g. laattamies)
- German: (-Leger ; only in combined words, such as Fliesenleger )
hen kept to lay eggs
item of clothing worn under or over another
- Czech: vrstva
- Dutch: laag
- Finnish: vaatekerros
- German: Bekleidungsschicht
Verb
Translations
to cut or divide into layers
to arrange in layers
- German: schichten
- Turkish: tabaka (?)
Extensive Definition
Layer may refer to:
- A layer of dieposits found on archaeological excavation isolated as a single context in the stratigraphy of the site
- A layer hen, a hen raised to produce eggs.
- In abstraction, a layer is an abstract place conceived as having depth.
- Stratum, a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics.
- Thermocline, a layer within a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth.
- Layering, a technique for plant propagation.
- Layered hair, a popular hair styling technique.
- Layering (clothing), the wearing of multiple layers of clothing for practical or fashion purposes
- A subset of related objects on a CAD drawing which can be viewed and manipulated separately from the whole drawing. Layers are usually organised to one of several recognised standard, such as ISO 13567.
Places:
- Layer de la Haye is a village in Essex, England.
In fiction:
- Layer, a scantily-clad female Maverick Hunter in the Mega Man X series. She works as a Navigator and has a crush on the character Zero.
In computing and technology:
- Abstraction layer
- Networking:
- OSI model layers
- Internet protocol suite layers
- 2D computer graphics#Layers, layers in 2D computer graphics
- Layers %28digital image editing%29
- layer (object-oriented design).
- DVD layer, such as in DVD Dual layer recording
- Appleton Layer, or F region (telecommunications)
- Layer (HTML tag) was an <iframe>-like tag, unique to Netscape 4 browsers. It has been deprecated and fallen out of use.
- In instructional design a layer is an element of the design architecture representing a function carried out by an instructional artifact. Design layers are characterized by coherent design languages that are used to express different layers of the design.
layer in German: Layer
layer in Esperanto: Tavolo
layer in Spanish: Capa (desambiguación)
layer in Japanese: レイヤー
layer in Lithuanian: lietuviškai
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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