layer

layer
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Thickness set upon another
Nouns
1. layer, stratum, couch, bed, zone, substratum, floor, stage, story, tier, slab, fold, flap, ply, veneer, lap, table, tablet, board, plank, platter, course. See horizontal.
2. plate, lamina, sheet, flake, foil, wafer, scale, coat, peel, membrane, film, leaf, slice, rasher, shaving, integument, seam, pane. See covering, part.
3. stratification, shale, scaliness, squamosity, lamination.
Verbs — slice, shave, pare, peel; plate, coat, veneer, cover, laminate, stratify.
Adjectives — lamellar, lamellate, laminated, micaceous; schistose, scaly, squamous, filmy, membranous, flaky, scurfy, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. stratum, bed, thickness, fold, band, cover, covering, sheet, coat, coating, overlay, lap, overlap, ply, seam, coping, course, substratum, floor, story, tier, zone, stripe, girdle, lamination, lamella, lamina, delamination, film, slab, flap, panel.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
stratum, thickness, bed, course, tier, ply, fold, overlap, sheet, row, zone.

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