Definition of Laminable

1. a. Capable of being split into laminæ or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.

Definition of Laminable

1. Adjective. Capable of being split into laminae, or thin plates. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Laminable

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Laminable

1. Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. "When a body can be readily extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when into fillets under the rolling press, it is said to be laminable." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laminable

lamina superficialis fasciae temporalis
lamina superficialis musculi levatoris palpebrae superioris
lamina suprachoroidea
lamina supraneuroporica
lamina tecti mesencephali
lamina terminalis cerebri
lamina terminalis of cerebrum
lamina tragi
lamina vasculosa choroideae
lamina ventralis
lamina visceralis
lamina visceralis pericardii
lamina vitrea
laminability
laminable (current term)
laminae
laminae albae cerebelli
laminae medullares cerebelli
laminae medullares thalami
laminagram
laminagraph
laminagraphy
laminak
laminaks
laminal
laminals
laminar
laminar air flow unit
laminar cortical necrosis

Literary usage of Laminable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practical Brass and Iron Founder's Guide: A Treatise on Brass Founding by James Larkin (1892)
"Their relative values as laminable substances are considerably different: thus, under the same circumstances, copper is 3, tin 4, lead 6. sine 7. ..."

2. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1882)
"AN improved white metal and a laminable or malleable bronze have been patented ... In order to make a laminable white metal in plates, the metal obtained as ..."

3. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine by John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1803)
"Others, on the contrary, as iron, are ductile, but not malleable and laminable. Others, as zinc, are laminable, but not at alf ductile, ..."

4. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"Lama, in mining, slime or schelm Lamina, the extremely thin plates or layers of metal which compose the solid metal laminable, a term applied to metal which ..."

5. Illustrated Technical Dictionary in Six Languages, English, German, French by Kurt Deinhardt, Alfred Schlomann (1908)
"... rolled laminable (adj) ziehbar (adj) ductile (adj), capable of being drawn ductile (adj) ... (agg) laminable (adj) ..."

6. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"'laminable. laminable. 'laminación (f) rolling, flattening, Batting, lamination (m. w-) ..."

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